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Tammy Baldwin: “We did an evaluation on what the impact would be on…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Tammy Baldwin Questions Workforce Reductions and Transparency with Department of Labor

Published | Video Starts at 04:48

I can tell you there are oftentimes what's important to me as the agency head is to make sure that spending more money doesn't necessarily get us the outcomes that we need. I can tell you the tariff conversation. We did an evaluation on what the impact would be on protecting workers benefits by cutting that division by 25%. We will always protect the American workers essential to the Department of Labor. So you did an evaluation prior to pushing out 25% of those workers? (04:48–04:57)

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Asserts that an evaluation was conducted on the impact of cutting the division by 25% on protecting workers' benefits.

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