Why does your budget propose to eliminate the CDC office that focuses on monitoring this deadly infectious disease that's especially a risk to rural communities. Why are you proposing to eliminate the office? There's a lot of cuts at the agency that nobody wants. We have a $39 trillion debt we've been asked to cut across the agency 12%. I assure you that the 600,000 hunters in Georgia would want this office. They would want the protection. (03:53–04:05)
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