And I can tell you from experience, when we're talking about things like Hurricane Harvey relief, it takes not just months but sometimes years for the money to get to the intended beneficiary. But We modified some of the funding stream to make sure that counties and cities of certain size, I think it was a half a million people, could get that money directly. And now I've introduced legislation. It's part of it's a bill with Alex Padilla, Democrat from California, that gives the states and counties and cities more flexibility in spending that … (06:46–06:56)
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