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Lisa Blunt Rochester: “You continue to traumatize them this fall by issuing a memo…”

Featuring: Lisa Blunt Rochester, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Delaware

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'The Actions Taken Toward Our Federal Employees Has Been Evil': Blunt Rochester Grills Vought

Published | Video Starts at 02:35

Well, I think the words speak for themselves. I really do. I don't think anybody can say that combination of words and have it be explicable. It is inexplicable. And You continue to traumatize them this fall by issuing a memo directing agencies to prepare for mass firings. Firings that I might note the court later found were illegal. So did the workers deserve because they feel traumatized? They were here. I saw them. (02:35–02:43)

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