Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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And we're going to make it so that they can get it instantaneously and that all of our documents are going to be public except those that are shielded under the statute for one reason or another.
And the big โ
The issue that, you know, the big problem that we're dealing with is that there is, you know, that there are names and privacy issues and you have to redact those.
Legally, we have to do that and we have to make sure we don't make any mistakes.
So the AI is, you know, that's what we're working out now.
We had 82,000 employees and 20,000 of them left.
We made a bunch of different cuts that were buyouts so that people who were at the end of their career could retire early.
There were rifts where people who were very new were let go.
And it was about reducing the workforce, but it was reducing the bureaucracy.
We weren't reducing โ we weren't getting rid of research or anything like that.
We didn't touch that except if there were certain categories of research like DEI research or there were other categories that were just โ
It was not real science and it was not โ we're changing the trajectory so that the purpose of NIA, the focus of NIH is going to be figuring out why we're all so sick.
Why is this chronic disease happening?
What are the exposures that are causing it?
What are the alternatives?
How do we end it?
And so we're shifting the focus, but the amount that we're spending on research is the same that we spent, you know, in 2020, 2019.
It was a pause.
And every administration does that.
You need to do a review and make sure that those research projects are not torturing beagles or doing DEI or โ and how do you decide that?