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Chris Van Hollen: “Russ Vogt told the country he wanted to impose trauma on…”

Featuring: Chris Van Hollen, Democratic | U.S. Senate Maryland

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Published | Video Starts at 21:25

We've seen this already in the context of food federal employees, where they've been illegally firing federal employees just within the last 48 hours. A federal judge said that they were imposing political retribution on federal employees. We know what Russ Vogt told the country he wanted to impose trauma on federal employees. And now what they're doing is using these cuts to food nutrition programs to impose trauma on all of the American people. (21:25–21:30)

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