Tammy Baldwin: “He lied about [the firings] to me.”

“When Milwaukee Public Schools had a lead crisis and 1800 school children were displaced, when they called the CDC for help, they were turned down. There was no one there to answer the phone because he discharged them and then He lied about [the firings] to me. In another hearing that I held earlier this year, we had a 10 year old Dewey plead with senators to rest funding for ALS research so that his father can live out his dream of seeing his son graduate from high school.” (03:13–03:15)

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