essentially preventing, like a double dipping, right? Gotcha, that's helpful. So that's the language that's currently in the budget request on like broadband related issues. But then right after the White House does their budget request, that's when Congress then takes the request. They can follow it if they don't follow if they want to not follow it, if they don't want to, and they kick off the annual appropriations Congress, Congress process. And these are the bills that actually allocate funding to agencies and programs, and they have to be passed every year by October 1 to prevent a government shutdown. Um, see there these are all the discretionary funding. So this is going to be the funding that has to be re upped every year. It doesn't just continue, whereas, like, a mandatory funding for like, social safety program, safety net programs, Medicaid, Social Security, things like that, or like mandatory spending. The Congress also has their own budget resolution, so on the top left of the screen, this is not required. This is not a required process for Congress to pass or begin the appropriations process if they're not going to pass a reconciliation bill, honestly, a lot of times they just don't even pass one. They just kind of jump right into appropriations after the President has submitted the budget request. But if they want to do a pass a bill via the reconciliation process, then they have to pass a budget resolution, because it essentially sets the like dollar figure, like goal posts that they have to then work towards under reconciliation. And the reconciliation process is it's this same type of bill, but there are different rules around what can be included in it, because it essentially provides a fast track for getting it passed. So the if you are hearing in the news about like the one big, beautiful bill, is what they're calling it, for better or worse, and that is what has the spectrum authority in there for spectrum auctions. It includes a mix of tax cuts, extending the 2017, tax cuts, spending increases for things like ice and immigration, and then also the changes to the social safety net programs that would like cut certain things to Medicaid and snap and things like that. So in order for a bill, a spending bill to get passed via this fast track, which only requires simple majority in the Senate, instead of the 60 votes that's typically required for a bill, it can only include like things that impact spending, revenues or the debt limit, so no policy, policy. Can be included if it's instrumental to the overall amount of spending. So like the policy changes that are happening to Medicaid and snap requiring, like work requirements and re enrollment, a more regular re enrollment. Those are technically like policy requirements, but they obviously serve to an effect of like, reducing the amount of money spent on those programs. So policy is allowed sometimes when it's instrumental to the amount of money that's being spent, but like, it would be difficult to include something like bead in all of the requirements it has in something like reconciliation, because you can provide like, the 42 point 5 billion for infrastructure, internet infrastructure development, but you wouldn't be able to include things like service quality requirements and all of those like extra policy things that are some that are unrelated to the amount of money being spent, if that makes sense. And any of the things that are included in a reconciliation bill cannot have an impact on the budget beyond 10 years. So that's why a lot of the programs and things that you'll see in the budget or in the reconciliation bill are like expire in 2035 if they're the max so on, in terms of like impacts and things we're seeing on AI the this reconciliation bill currently includes language to have a state preemption, or federal preemption, of all state AI regulation and enforcement. So it's the full 10 years, because that's the max that they can go. And they're essentially including that policy air quote because they're saying it's related to the amount of funding that they're giving to the Department of Commerce to do AI. It may get pulled out. It may stay in. If you've heard of the bird rule, this is like Senator Robert Byrd had introduced this, this rule in the 80s or late 70s, saying that you can't include policy writers and reconciliation and so essentially, if one of the senators thinks that something's a policy and is not, you know, instrumentally related to the amount of spending, then it'll get dumped, which is what we're as a common sense are hoping to see happen with this AI preemption. But it is very confusing that in news coverage, and it just a lot of our like circles. All of these things are referred to as like budget bills. But I think the main thing to remember is that the only actual yearly appropriations are the congressional appropriations. Both of the White House and congressional budgets are non enforceable and non binding, unless they want to pass a spending bill that's separate from appropriations via reconciliation. And I hope that that was somewhat coherent, because I know it's confusing, and even as I'm saying it, I'm like hoping it makes sense, but I'm happy to answer any questions on those but I felt like it was helpful to give a background to make sure everyone's on the same page before we get into the like, what we know, what we think you know, what we don't know. And honestly, I feel like all of these things could exist in all of these categories, because there's like, bits and pieces that we know and don't know. Is there a question? Okay, so what we know, we've already talked about DEA grants being terminated. The latest I've heard is that the tribal awards are still under review. I'm not sure if that's been updated in the in the week since organizations and states were notified, but effectively they've been terminated. We don't know how any legal challenges, if or they will play out. In regards to DEA, it makes it difficult because there's only a handful of folks who were who had received, like a signed contract, so that they the only only a small group of people have, like legal standing to challenge. So that's kind of at both buckets, the bead guidance being delayed until June or July. There's there was a letter that was released yesterday from a handful of groups essentially urging the administration to let the money flow and to, just like, take out the, like, burdensome requirements, and then just to let states march forward. We're not really sure what the guidance will be when it comes out, and what the impacts of that will be, if it will, you know, make states go back to the drawing board entirely, or if it'll be something that, like they're just they're not enforceable, like rules around, like quality of service and price and, like labor usage, things like that. The Senate E Rate hotspot lending order. So this was a a FCC program that was passed. Passed or a rule that was enacted the end of the Biden administration in July of last year, and essentially, for any like executive branch rule making, they Congress can issue a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the program within a certain number of days of the new administration taking over. Unfortunately, this program was attacked by Senator Cruz. It essentially allows schools and libraries to use E Rate funding to provide off spot, off campus hot spots to students and adult learners. And essentially, congressional Republicans are arguing that it provides like, unfettered access to harmful things online, because, you know, it can give access to off campus connectivity, even though there's an already filtering in place on all of these hot spots. And there's been talks around like it will overextend the E Rate program because it expands like the amount of like eligible expenses. Even though it's just adding an eligible expense, it's not actually increasing the amount of money. But these are besides the point, I guess. But the Senate passed the CRA a few weeks ago. We're expecting the house to probably bring it up within, within the month of June, but they technically do have the entire length of this Congress so that until the end of next year to vote on this. So it could be zoom, it could be late, hard to say. But what's really harmful about this is that it would essentially like salt the earth for the FCC ever doing a another off campus connectivity solution that is not like congressionally mandated. So even though they could just defer to sec chair car, he could revise the program to what they would want it to be, they haven't chosen to do that. They've chosen to just fully overturn it, which is unfortunate, since this is like one of the last federal supports for off campus connectivity.