… want to assert oneself as a global competitor, the kinds of things that one would do in order to really assert that position is investments in science and technology, which We are gutting our NIH, we are gutting our health science research. We are cutting the very things that make us a global power in that respect in terms of government and public funding research, which is what allows innovation in a more broad sense as opposed to privatized research. (29:36–29:41)
CLAIM
Asserts that the United States is reducing funding for the National Institutes of Health and health science research.
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