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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “I can tell you that within the agency, there were, you know…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Senate Budget Hearing with Tammy Baldwin and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Lead Poisoning and Head Start Funding

Published | Video Starts at 05:36

There should not be any delays. The funding is there. We are spending it. It's allocated. I don't know why there would be those kind of problems. I can tell you that within the agency, there were, you know, there were people who wanted to make the Trump administration look bad and that there were checks held up that shouldn't have been. I will have to look into that. Senator. Senator. (05:36–05:50)

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Asserts that some agency members held up checks to make the Trump administration look bad.

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