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Chris Wright: “We wrongly laid off a number of critical, very important…”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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Mark Kelly Grills Chris Wright On 'Fundamental Error' In Staffing Reductions At Energy Department

Published | Video Starts at 04:18

And you could have been new in a role. You've been at the department for 15 years, but you're newly in a role and you're considered provisional. And we lost some or We wrongly laid off a number of critical, very important people in [the National Security Administration]. NSA. As soon as I realized that, which was within 24 hours, we called all of them back and all but two came back. That was a screw up. (04:18–04:25)

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Admits to mistakenly laying off critical personnel in the National Security Administration.

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