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Glenn Grothman: “That only reduced employment by 60 or 70,000 people.”

Featuring: Glenn Grothman, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 6

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Published | Video Starts at 08:29

We reduce the number miley by providing buyouts for people and we reduce the number by putting in hiring freezes so that if people get people retire, they don't get replaced. But That only reduced employment by 60 or 70,000 people. I think if you ask around, you will find people who know through their relatives or people in their apartment building or people in their church that there are still probably hundreds of thousands of people who are working there unnecessarily. (08:29–08:37)

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Asserts that employment reductions in the Department of Defense amounted to 60,000 to 70,000 people.

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