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Markwayne Mullin: “We lost almost 8% of the workforce, which is almost double…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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'RIPPLE EFFECTS': Mullin details impact of record-long government shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 01:36

What was taking place was tearing Homeland altogether from the Coast Guard all the way down to ICE and everybody in between. Just TSA. We lost almost 8% of the workforce, which is almost double what our attrition rate typically is. Yeah. So how do you replace those people? Well, it takes four months. Well, not really. It takes about four months to onboard people. (01:36–01:42)

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Asserts that the workforce loss during the shutdown was nearly double the typical attrition rate.

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