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Mark Pocan: “They fired 10,000 people, and then 10,000 people took early…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Mark Pocan Discusses Impact of Proposed Health Care and Social Program Cuts in Wisconsin Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 18:01

But even those numbers didn't make any sense. But the firings are especially crazy. Think if you're a federal employee at Department of Health and Human Services, again, Secretary Kennedy's jurisdiction. They fired 10,000 people, and then 10,000 people took early retirement. And then they realized they shouldn't have fired everybody because they needed some of the people, like bird flu is a thing, and. And so they try to hire 2000 back. (18:01–18:06)

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