And the fact that he turned down these funds is because there are a ton of strings tied up to all these funds. You have to do and To implement those funds, it is expensive, but you have to do things that you don't want to do as a state, possibly. And so turning down those funds, it stinks. But, but at the same time, you know, we have a summer, we started that with early Covid and it's appropriate. (24:15–24:22)
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