James Lankford: “A quarter billion dollars that was spent on transitioning…”

“You identified one of the things that I actually brought out, and that is we talk a lot about Minnesota and the fraud, but we also need to be able to talk about A quarter billion dollars that was spent on transitioning mice and transitioning monkeys by NIH. Those are things the American taxpayer dollar doesn't want to spend their money on. They don't mind spending money on national defense, on education, on roads.” (09:48–09:56)

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