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Diana DeGette: “Entire divisions have been eliminated. And you know what?…”

Featuring: Diana DeGette, Democratic | U.S. House, Colorado, District 1

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Diana DeGette Criticizes Health Bureaucracy Layoffs and Calls for Congressional Action

Published | Video Starts at 00:53

When I woke up to a headline this morning that says Kennedy lays off thousands across the health bureaucracy, what did he do? Well, he laid off thousands of people in the fda, in the cdc, in the nih. Entire divisions have been eliminated. And you know what? Congress established these divisions by statute. Congress established all of these agencies by statute. There's only one entity that can legally fix and improve this, and that's Congress, Mr. Chairman. (00:53–01:02)

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