Franklin Foer

and that has all sorts of implications that also require government to open up, to take this $3 billion thing and then to turn it into something that's actually the everyday patient has the ability to access, to understand the tumor in their body, or to understand the rare disease that their toddler has been afflicted with, and to design therapies that could actually treat these esoteric diseases, that is something only government could do.

No private...

startup is going to address esoteric diseases.

Like, you need the government to unlock that.

You know, I think of the physicians, I think of the PhD scientists, I think of the other, you know, the technicians, the computer scientists.

I mean, we did this, and my staff who's still there continue to do this because they really believe in the mission, they believe in public service, but they also now have been traumatized by the destructive forces that they've witnessed.

I worry about when it comes time to rebuild the NIH or to rebuild the government, will people think twice that it is worth the risk?

Because the way people were laid off was not kind and gentle.

It was pretty brutal.

And it was not done in a fashion where there was any sensitivity associated with it.

In fact, I would describe it as cruel.

And I worry that the next generation may think twice about wanting to work in the government for fearful that an administration could come in and be as destructive as this one has been.

He made all this investment in restoring American manufacturing. The country is in actually quite good shape.

He made all this investment in restoring American manufacturing. The country is in actually quite good shape.

He made all this investment in restoring American manufacturing. The country is in actually quite good shape.

I mean, he's leaving Donald Trump with material economic conditions for Donald Trump to be a very successful president if he doesn't lift a finger.

I mean, he's leaving Donald Trump with material economic conditions for Donald Trump to be a very successful president if he doesn't lift a finger.

I mean, he's leaving Donald Trump with material economic conditions for Donald Trump to be a very successful president if he doesn't lift a finger.

His idea of persuasion and compromise and searching for something in the middle that actually gets done as opposed to demonizing one's enemies. I'd say that that approach wasn't that successful in his presidency. I mean, it was successful in producing legislation, but it wasn't politically successful.

His idea of persuasion and compromise and searching for something in the middle that actually gets done as opposed to demonizing one's enemies. I'd say that that approach wasn't that successful in his presidency. I mean, it was successful in producing legislation, but it wasn't politically successful.