On the 988 hotline in your budget, you have eliminated, there was a special button you could press for LGBTQ +Youth. I'm an openly gay man. I deal with a lot of organizations that deal with this. You know, The suicide rate among LGBT youth is four times nationally. The rate of other youth. This is one where I hope that we could try to, like Chuck asked, work together to try to see if we could have a conversation about not eliminating this. (03:25–03:30)
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