Tammy Baldwin: “This little but mighty agency has saved literally billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives.”

“AHRQ has supported work to reduce the rate of hospital acquired infections and to make sure that kids waiting for a heart transplant can get one. It has funded work to improve health care for older Americans coming home from the hospital. This little but mighty agency has saved literally billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives. But President Trump has decided that this research is wasteful and that his personal vanity projects are more important. Let me turn to the Department of Education.” (04:10–04:19)

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