00:00Mr. Ivey for his two-minute question, statement, or whatever.
00:05All of the above, maybe?
00:07I don't know.
00:08But my colleague there, you know, made me think of Bill Gates' quote.
00:14He just said, the wealthiest man in the world is basically killing the poorest kids in the world by making these cuts.
00:25And you're sort of executing that.
00:28I appreciate the comment that was made there, but we really can't sugarcoat this.
00:33More people are going to die.
00:34And if I think I heard what you said there, prevention is going to get less funding than it currently is.
00:43And I think in every model, prevention is better than trying to cure it after a disease is contracted.
00:49But, you know, real quick on this, the merit hiring plan, which I saw one of the questions.
00:59I think it was question number three.
01:01Identify one or two relevant executive orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you and explain how you would help implement them if hired.
01:11And I read that and I was like, well, I don't know that every president is going to, you know, be issuing 50 executive orders per day.
01:20So if it's, you know, just a commitment to do what following President Trump's executive orders, I think that's totally inappropriate.
01:30And I think there's a lot of positions that we need to fill in the federal government, like some of the science and engineering jobs I mentioned a few minutes ago.
01:37So I don't really care if they're reading the president's executive orders per se.
01:42I'm more curious, you know, I care more about them curing cancer or addressing Alzheimer's or if they're federal agents tracking down Sinaloa cartel or identifying and tracking down the waste, fraud, and abuse that's actually occurring by major malfactors or, you know, the competition with our adversaries abroad.
02:04So I see my two minutes are running out.
02:06I do want to say this.
02:08I just noticed I saw this up here and I, it matches the t-shirts and the audience to the labor community out there.
02:14Stay strong.
02:15Thank you very much.
02:16The chair now recognizes Mr. Cloud for his question.
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