But as far as the federal government taking over funding for our local school districts, I don't think that would be a positive thing for our rural districts across Montana. Thank you, Senator Tester. Mister Sheehy, The Department of Education, like so many of our other federal bureaucracies, has become bloated, massively over funded at the DC level. And the actual impacts of that funding are not moving it down to the level where they actually matter. We're oftentimes, you know, alternating for last place. In Montana. (58:02–58:12)
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