Was that a priority for you to try and get Republicans to, or were there just too many other places for the money? Yes and yes. Yes and no. We wanted both, obviously. But at the end of the day, We put together a package that was $1.4 billion in spendable money. And also, as you likely remember, part of the problem in the past was the amount of money that school districts had to backfill into special education. (01:56–02:08)
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