Secretary, you know, I worked at the government, put together two budgets as a secretary of administration and I know the challenges of doing that. The idea that you would enter into the next budget with a $3 billion deficit potentially makes that materially harder. from all the stuff that we were talking about about making investments. The surplus that's expected is expected to at the end of next June. We're in a Donald Trump economy. (1:31:55–1:32:03)
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