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🗓️ 1 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from Bayer. |
| 0:02.3 | Science is a rigorous process that requires questions, testing, transparency, and results that can be proven. |
| 0:09.5 | This approach is integral to every breakthrough Bayer brings forward. |
| 0:13.0 | Innovations that save lives and feed the world. |
| 0:15.8 | Science Delivers.com. Over 210,000 federal workers have left their jobs due to actions by the Trump administration |
| 0:30.8 | this year. That's according to the Partnership for Public Service Harms Tracker. |
| 0:35.3 | For many, it is meant walking away from or being pushed out of a decades-long commitment to public service harms tracker. For many, it is meant walking away from or being pushed out of |
| 0:38.6 | a decades-long commitment to public service in search of something new. And what are at least some |
| 0:44.5 | of those fired and furloughed federal workers and contractors doing with their newfound free time? |
| 0:50.6 | They're running for public office. The reason that Congress urgently needs recently departed feds is that Trump is really gutting |
| 0:59.2 | essential systems in government. |
| 1:01.4 | You need real career feds who really understand the inside of government to rebuild what |
| 1:06.5 | Trump has destroyed. |
| 1:07.6 | VA employees deserve better, and I am not going to shut up about the impact that |
| 1:12.2 | they have had in my life and in so many others. That's when I decided to run for Congress. |
| 1:17.7 | The federal workers who say, you know, my job's apolitical. We're now in a time where you may not |
| 1:24.3 | think politics is for you, but politics thinks you're for them. If you're not going to |
| 1:28.8 | be part of discussion or at the table, decisions will be made for you. Former federal workers can |
| 1:34.2 | make a positive difference in today's political climate. We worked for many different administrations, |
| 1:39.9 | upholding laws and policies. But we took an oath to the Constitution, not a man or a party. |
| 1:46.0 | We served the American people. |
| 1:48.0 | If any other 3 million people in this country were treated the way that federal workers have been treated, |
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