They don't have the ability to take that money and do what's best for their own child. And so I'm a big, big advocate of that. A lot of that will be decided at the state level, and I'm running for a federal office, but there are a lot of dollars at the federal level that I would like to see not come back to California with strings attached. I'd like to see them come back to California without strings attached because I do have faith that the local people know best how to spend that money. (08:50–09:01)
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Asserts that federal funds should be returned to California without conditions.
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