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Hakeem Jeffries: “Republican appropriations bill wants to cut funding for the…”

Featuring: Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 8th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 03:28

And by the way, on top of all of that, medical research has been effectively ended in the United States of America. And in this Republican appropriations bill wants to cut funding for the CDC by $1.7 billion. and cut funding for the National Institute of health by $500 million. This is extraordinary stuff. And we are simply not going to go along to get along the Republican effort to continue to gut the health care of the American people. (03:28–03:44)

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Asserts that the Republican appropriations bill proposes a $1.7 billion cut to CDC funding.

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