Kemp responded “it’d be really hard for me to answer that question” when asked his stance on Trump’s federal cuts that are hurting Georgia

In a one-on-one sitdown interview with 11 Alive last week, Gov. Brian Kemp continued to dodge questions about the devastating effects that the Trump administration’s funding cuts are having on Georgia.

During the interview, Kemp was asked if he stood by his comments about “rightsizing government” and if he thought the federal cuts currently impacting Georgia were too drastic or happening too fast. He responded: “it’d be really hard for me to answer that question.”

“It shouldn’t be hard to answer the question of whether the governor supports the Trump administration’s mass-firings of thousands of Georgians,” said DPG spokesman Alex Yerkey. “Especially when so many of those thousands of fired workers were scientists at the CDC working on our state’s active outbreaks of measles, hepatitis, and bird flu, Brian Kemp’s silence speaks volumes.”

Thus far, thousands of Georgians who worked until recently for the CDC and other federal agencies have been fired by the Trump administration. The CDC has already undergone two rounds of staffing cuts, which have been characterized as “potentially catastrophic” and leaving the agency “in a state of chaos.”