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WATCH: Waterloo, Iowa residents hold open forum on DOGE cuts

From Lutheran Social Services of Iowa, to housing and public health advocates, nonprofits talk about what happened after they suddenly lost federal funding from Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts.
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