Brett Watson
65:44 - 66:11
"I was presenting data from 2023 because that's sort of the latest data that we have available to us to see what actually got spent"
“I was presenting data from 2023 because that's sort of the latest data that we have available to us to see what actually got spent”
- Speaker
- Brett Watson
- Timestamp
- 65:44 – 66:11
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- June 26, 2026
From the transcript
That's a very difficult exercise to replicate at scale. And so, like I said, I think there have been pockets of efforts to try to understand it, but it would be a really valuable activity, I think, to try to undertake. Just, you know, what is—. Trying to understand what this landscape looks like has been challenging, and we're constantly having to wait. You know, I was presenting data from 2023 because that's sort of the latest data that we have available to us to see what actually got spent, right?
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