And it's why and I said this in my opening comments, but I was really disappointed that in the first few months of Trump's presidency, we seem to be going backwards on apprenticeship expansion. The administration has canceled several apprenticeship contracts, including contracts that were helping various communities grow their apprenticeship programs. And then the president's fiscal year 26 skinny budget request came out, which seeks to really decimate funding at Department of Labor, state and local workforce programs by over a third. (01:16–01:27)
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