It was $400 million, $400 million of health care funding that we had planned on using during the worst increase in measles, for example, in recent years got clawed back from Virginia, and 500 workers and contractors lost their jobs as we were trying to deal with measles and other health epidemics. I have communities in Virginia who had had economic development projects announced, and they were counting on them for their future. (10:35–10:46)
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