Urban school districts could hire guidance counselors and social workers for the first time. New school buildings would go up, leaks would be fixed. How about medical research? The total budget of NIH and CDC, about $60 billion. So if we had taken this money that we've spent in just two and a half months of war and applied it to medical research, we would double, double this year's budget for medical research. (05:40–05:47)
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Asserts that the combined budget of NIH and CDC is about $60 billion.
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