And, yeah, the real world includes, you know, at the end of the day, the most difficult issue that we had to surmount getting the pact act passed was money. Absolutely. It turns out that if you're going to cover another 3.5 million veterans nationwide who were exposed to burn pits and have ailments due to their burn pit exposure, that costs a lot of money. And there were a lot of people in Congress who didn't want to spend that money. They're more fiscally conservative. They want to spend on something else. (17:50–18:04)
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