Your decision to fire staff and eliminate offices is endangering children, including thousands of children in Milwaukee. If you have a proposal to make these programs work better, present it and justify it. Mr. Secretary, You will say that you have to fire thousands of employees and eliminate programs like LIHEAP because our deficit is too large. But you won't mention that. At the same time this administration is proposing these cuts, it's proposing tax cuts for billionaires that will add trillions to our debt. (06:26–06:37)
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Asserts that the justification for firing employees and cutting programs is the large deficit.
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