Tammy Baldwin: “We had to write into law, into the appropriations law that…”

“… well as really heavy pressure to get people to sign up to early retirements, et cetera. But just a big push to get people out of the agencies. And so We had to write into law, into the appropriations law that they have to maintain staffing sufficient for their mission. And I can give you any number of examples where people needed to reach out to divisions within the cdc, for example, and no one was there.” (08:37–08:47)

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