Senate Democrats are reviving efforts to lift a 20-year-old ban on using taxpayer dollars to research gun-related crime and violence in the United States.
In a press conference last week, Democrats announced a new bid to give money to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention specifically to pay for such research.
“For gun violence, which kills more than 33,000 Americans a year, the CDC’s budget is zero,” Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said. “That is wrong, that is unacceptable, that is immoral.”
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