So what they're doing is they're having to triage federal spending, as you know, because anybody, as we said, any person who's in the White House, regardless of party and their director of OMB is given this unfortunate reluctant task. They have to figure out in triage what are the most essential services, personnel policies and what are not. They're going to look at that through a partisan lens. But when they look through it through that lens, I mean, we're looking at it right now as conservative Republicans. (37:03–37:10)
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