And that's what I tried to do as comptroller with COVID And look, there were big decisions we all had to make. I remember being in my office, you know, on that. You know, on that day that I became the first city official to shut down the controller. I remember sitting with our deputy comptroller saying, have we put the protections in place for the pension fund? Can we walk out and manage the pension fund? (21:21–21:25)
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