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Doug Burgum: “It was hard to find out the exact information, but the…”

Featuring: Doug Burgum, Republican | U.S. Secretary of the Interior | National

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And subsequent to that, I think a number of us wrote letters to you asking for this information. And you head a department that has had. That had around 70,000 employees, is that correct? It was hard to find out the exact information, but the closest we could come to was it was around 65,000 a year ago. Okay, so that's a lot of employees. And so my question remains, how many people have been fired, took early retirement? Where are we in terms of the number of employees that you have? (00:27–00:35)

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