Denver Riggleman

They want to make a 32% cut, like massive cuts, $2.5 billion to the agency of the Center for Disease Control.

And that's the agency that responds to outbreaks, to health threats, that funds public health infrastructure.

You know, we had

Mitch McConnell up here in North Kentucky this past week touting the fact that somehow he brought $12 billion or something of whatever investments that he's claiming that he brought in for this area.

Just in this one piece of the budget that these guys are allowing this president to do because of the stupid war that he started, or at least that's the

That's the reasoning that they're saying.

Kentucky's share of the CDC budget of public health, we would lose an estimated 63 million.

Wow.

We're just hurting ourselves.

Another big cuts are to K-12 education.

We already took a hit in this big, ugly bill last year, and now they want to cut it even more.

We're talking almost a 70% reduction in funding going through K-12 education.

And

You know, what does that mean?

That's entire programs being wiped out.

Support for homeless kids, for rural schools, for literacy.

All of that stuff is just going to go away.

And I'm just like, how is this America first?

It's just insane.

The National Science Foundation, you know, the small business agency, the Job Corps, workforce development, all of this stuff is getting just obliterated.