But what happened there is the Trump administration last year abruptly ended the service and defended that by saying, well, we want to treat everyone the same. We don't want to discriminate. Well, they kept The Press one option for veterans [on the 988 hotline] was kept, but the service Press three for LGBTQ youth was eliminated. youth. Very unfortunate. But fortunately, there was a bipartisan pushback to that. I worked on two fronts for that, one successful and the other still in progress. (05:15–05:30)
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