So I had to take $7 billion out of the services for our city. The long term impact of that is what troubles me. Right. That's the. Because I could have taken $200 million of that to go to chronically absent children. Because we had a lot of children that are chronically absent after Covid. I could have taken, I could have taken $500 million and went to my adults care. (45:11–45:16)
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Asserts that $200 million could have been allocated to address chronic absenteeism among children.
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