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President Trump’s proposal to slash public health and medical research spending drew a scathing review from the man who ran the Department of Health and Human Services under President George H.W. Bush.

“I’m concerned that putting out numbers like this — so drastic — that we’re going to hurt our citizens and our population,”  Dr. Louis Sullivan, who served as HHS secretary from 1989 to 1993, told STAT.

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