Well, Senator, thank you for the question. We are spending our dollars appropriately and will be on budget. When your reference to the airframe that was the requested dollars were put in for. That's for the Coast Guard. It's to replace an existing jet that is over 20 years old and is beyond its US. and the coast Guard for many, many years has been neglected and has many airframe that have been grounded because they can't even be maintained anymore. (01:22–01:29)
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