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Eric Swalwell: “Cancer research funding, a 40% cut in a state that does so…”

Featuring: Eric Swalwell, Democratic | U.S. House California, 14th Congressional District

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Sacramento Town Hall with Eric Swalwell

Published | Video Starts at 29:05

… over Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Texas have received our hard working taxpayer dollars that we were all Glad to send to those shaken communities are not coming back to us. Cancer research funding, a 40% cut in a state that does so much of the research that finds cures. We should not be killing cancer research. We're the state that should be killing cancer. And so my plan as governor is to create that resilience, that independence that only California can do. (29:05–29:15)

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Asserts a 40% cut in cancer research funding in California.

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