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Mark Pocan: “We fired people who work on nuclear weapons, only to try to…”

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 47:56

Like, you know, I don't know if that gives me any confidence that I'm really looking for, but none of them have any experience in what they're doing. Which is why We fired people who work on nuclear weapons, only to try to rehire them. Why we're firing people at the Federal Aviation offices When right now we kind of need all the air traffic controllers we can get. (47:56–48:01)

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Asserts that nuclear weapons personnel were fired and then rehired.

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