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The American Action Forum, a right-leaning policy group, estimated last year that getting rid of the exemption would result in "$8bn to $30bn in additional annual costs that would eventually be passed on to consumers".

On Tuesday, with the city deep in a budget crisis, Rodriguez pleaded for Mayor Karen Bass not to get rid of the department.

But in a wearied tone, he told me “in SELA, sometimes it isn’t about someone getting rid of corruption and cleaning up the city.”

Speaking after the meeting, Binet defended the decision to get rid of the women's health strategy – a strongly criticised move.

"Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden 'Overhang.'"