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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We have beds now for 7,600 unaccompanied minors, and only…”

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

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LIVE: HHS Sec. RFK Jr. testifies on Trump administration agenda

Published | Video Starts at 1:43:06

They explained that the objective was to move kids out of custody as quickly as possible. They made a lot of mistakes. But now, thanks to President Trump, the amount of unaccompanied minors has dropped by 97%. We have beds now for 7,600 unaccompanied minors, and only 2,000 of those are filled. We hold them until. Only until. But until we can completely verify the people who pick them up are actually family members. And that has never happened during the last four years. (1:43:06–1:43:22)

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