Medical research has effectively been halted in the United States of America. And Republicans are proposing dramatic cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute of Health. We are witnessing an all out Republican assault on the health care of the American people. It's unacceptable, it's unconscionable, and it's un American. And that's why Democrats are standing up and fighting to decisively address this crisis that our Republican colleagues continue to visit on the American people. (18:51–18:57)
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Asserts that there is a Republican assault on American healthcare.
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