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🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:27.8 | Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in the nation's capital over the weekend to protest President Trump and Elon Musk's dismantling of the federal government. |
0:32.3 | It was one of at least 1,300 rallies across the U.S. |
0:35.6 | Here's what one protester in Washington, D.C., told the Washington Post. |
0:39.6 | I mean, the things that he's doing is not trying to make America better. He's right now destroying |
0:44.9 | our economy. He's taken away all of our allies. We're a pariah in the world. And Congress |
0:53.3 | sits back and does nothing. The White House's latest target, the Department |
0:58.1 | of Health and Human Services. Early last week, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. |
1:03.0 | slashed 10,000 jobs at HHS at the direction of Doge. Entire offices were eliminated in a series |
1:09.5 | of chaotic layoffs, including teams that assess |
1:12.3 | lead contamination and order vital supplies for health agencies. Some of those positions, Secretary |
1:17.6 | Kennedy says, will need to be reinstated. Experts warned that these sweeping job cuts at |
1:23.2 | HHS will affect drug approvals, disease tracking, and vital biomedical research. |
1:28.9 | Today, we continue our series, if you can keep it, with a look at what these actions mean for |
1:33.1 | our public health and the health of U.S. democracy. |
1:35.8 | What's the latest on the firings at HHS and how might staff cuts at the department change the way |
1:40.7 | the U.S. delivers health services? |
1:42.8 | We get into it after the break. I'm Jen |
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