Months after the facility was cited with hundreds of violations and agreed to surrender its state dog breeding license, the USDA conducted inspection of the facility and determined it was still qualified as a Class A USDA licensing facility. So This license allows the breeder to supply animals for taxpayer funded research purposes, including NIH labs. And you may remember we had that conversation with Secretary Kennedy. He said he wants to stop this practice. In fact, he thought it wasn't going on and I appreciated the comments he had that day. (01:53–02:01)
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