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Tim Kaine: “Early in this administration, the Secretary of Health and…”

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Tim Kaine Defends Democrats' Continuing Resolution After Both Funding Proposals Fail In The Senate

Published | Video Starts at 10:06

When you negotiate and you shake hands, a deal should be a deal. And this actually is related to healthcare as well. In last year's budget, we had a deal about spending on healthcare priorities. Early in this administration, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Announced that he was clawing back billions of dollars of health care funding. to. To Virginia. 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 … (10:06–10:21)

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Asserts that billions of dollars in healthcare funding were clawed back by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

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