But frankly, I can't believe we're all sitting here having routine hearings like nothing's going on. When I woke up to a headline this morning that says Kennedy lays off thousands across the health bureaucracy, [including] the fda, the cdc, [and] the nih. 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. (00:40–00:54)
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Asserts that Kennedy laid off thousands of people in major health agencies.
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