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Dick Durbin: “The president's whims have created dangerous vacancies now…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Durbin Condemns The Trump Administration's FDA For Authorizing The First Ever Flavored E-Cigarettes

Published | Video Starts at 04:10

It's never a good idea for the pressure. And from the president and the White House to pressure regulators to approve applications. That's a recipe for deadly consequences. As The president's whims have created dangerous vacancies now at the Food and Drug Administration and Center for Disease Control. my Republican colleagues should have the nerve and fortitude to call out this alarming, unacceptable and dangerous behavior and treatment of our children. (04:10–04:17)

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Asserts that President Trump's actions have created dangerous vacancies at the FDA and CDC.

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