00:00Quickly, if you could, I want to ask you about some medical research funding that the White House is withholding right now from the National Institutes of Health.
00:05Fourteen Republican senators say you're risking, quote, undermining critical research and, quote, could threaten Americans' ability to access better treatments.
00:14Will you allow that funding to go through at the NIH?
00:16We're going through the same programmatic review of the NIH that we did on education funding.
00:20So NIH is a program that if they were a company that went through the last pandemic, their stock prices would be in shambles.
00:27I mean, they fundamentally mismanaged and in some respects caused the pandemic by their own research for gain-of-function research.
00:34Now, put that aside for a second.
00:36Now you have waste, foreign abuse of funding, injecting dogs with cocaine and studying the impacts of it, giving money to Harvard to study lizards being blown off of branches by leaf blowers.
00:48Every step of the way, you have fundamental DEI across the board.
00:52I don't think that's what the Republican senators are talking about.
00:54We literally have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at NIH.
00:59You think that's what the Republican senators want funding for?
01:01What I'm suggesting is that we have fully funded all important research through our budget proposal.
01:07We will continue to make sure that funding goes out, but we're going to do everything we can to make sure that NIH is not weaponized and wasteful against the American people.
