But I was wondering if you could give us some context here of if it were to happen, what would the result be? I mean, what would we actually see happen in the city? Well. Oh, well, first off, first off, It would be disastrous if we got any federal funding pulling. And let me just say that these are taxpayer dollars that New York sends to D.C. there's only been in the last 10 years, last 20 years, two years in which we've gotten more money back from the federal government than we spent. (15:53–15:57)
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