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Featuring: Steny Hoyer, Democratic | U.S. House Maryland, 5th Congressional District

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'How Many Of The Replacements Are Political?': Steny Hoyer Grills RFK On HHS Staffing Changes

Published | Video Starts at 05:04

We needed to do something drastic, change the institutional culture of this agency and realign it with a new trajectory and the chronic disease epidemic. Secretary, my point is that We're going to be back apparently pretty close to the same complement of FD that we had. I understand that. Now, how many of the replacements are political as opposed to career? Virtually all of them are career. So I wanted to ask you a question about experts having been rehired. (05:04–05:10)

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