by Julia Griffin

“’Personnel that should not have been cut, were cut,’ Kennedy told reporters on Thursday.
‘We’re reinstating them. And that was always the plan … [W]e’re going to do 80% cuts, but 20%
of those are going to have to be reinstated, because we’ll make mistakes.’ … A program by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that monitors for lead exposure in children was among
the work mistakenly gutted by the layoffs, Kennedy said. ‘There were some programs that were cut that
are being reinstated, and I believe that that’s one,’ he said.”
—The Guardian

So personnel that should not have been cut, were cut.
We made mistakes. That always was the plan.
We cut 4/5; 1/5 of that was error, but
We’ll push it all back in. I’m sure we can.

Whenever programs no one meant to gut, we gut,
Like monitoring kids exposed to lead,
We’ll reinstate them, open up the labs we shut.
Trust us. We’ll do exactly what we said.