The department has created chaos, and by indiscriminately firing new employees, pushing established experts into retirement, and implementing poorly conceived reductions in force, these cuts were done haphazardly and without regard to HHS needs present or future. In addition to inexplicable, chaotic layoffs, The department has frozen and slashed grants, politicized science, and added bureaucratic red tape. While some work has been reinstated in large part due to court orders, every member in this room, on both sides of the aisle, has heard from public health organizations and research universities in their districts about the abrupt halting of funding. (01:11–01:19)
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