And I'm remembering lecturing Mick Mulvaney in my office about what a dumb idea this was and that God forbid, if something terrible happened, you'd be the equivalent of cutting defense on the eve of war. And lo and behold, it did happen. And We're very fortunate that they did not get the CDC and the NIH and the strategic stockpile budgets that they asked for. They got what Congress thought on a bipartisan basis under both Republicans and Democrats, was more appropriate. And we needed every bit of that and more. (26:22–26:30)
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Asserts that Congress did not approve the budget cuts requested by the Trump administration for the CDC, NIH, and strategic stockpile.
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