Senator, we definitely did not shut down the Department of Civil Rights at the Department of Education before I got there. And then the RIF happened, I think a week after I was sworn in. But The process had been in place to reduce greatly the Department of Education the number of people there under very stringent budgetary requirements. that we were given. And so this was part of a rift that happened. But we were in the process of looking at how to make sure that our Office … (03:17–03:30)
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