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Related to the second question about feedback for organizations, Betsy, do you want to kind of talk about where we're at, what our thoughts are. Yeah, you know, I think that, um, what one of the things that, you know, I would echo some of the comments that you made earlier, DC Ricci, around, um, you know, the majority— you're right, Representative Mina— that the majority of the letters of interest were not advanced. And I wouldn't say that that is, um, really a reflection of, of volume. I think that's one of the main reflections that we see, that we, you know, have as we've discussed with this group before, when we look at the midpoint of the asks, the volume, the dollar amount of the asks from that first letter of interest process, that totaled about $2.5 billion in first-year asks. And we know that we have the $270 million available for this first year.

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