We see hospitals and nursing homes and community based health centers closing all across the country. In this appropriations process that we're in right now, Republicans are trying to enact a $1.7 billion cut to the Centers for Disease Control. That will be the largest cut to the CDC in American history. And at the same time, they want to enact a historic cut to the National Institutes of Health. (02:28–02:36)
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