i wanted share apologies from kate howard or manage deputy director at dhr he and our h r director carroll are getting pulled with the new administration and demands that are under way now. so. we are porschia and i are ready and happy to present and share information with you and if there are questions we can not answer we'll check back with our dhr leadership and report back after. thank you. >> i wanted start off and say i have been in my role over a little over 9 years now. january ninth and -- this council as well as mod have been an amazing partnership a lot for supporting us with ace program a program we'll talk about today. access to city. am program. and addition to support with eeo equal employment opportunity, accommendation cord narrator and work with mod as well as council to be able to help us in making decisions and also giving us support when we need t. i want to say, thank you. and congratulations to you on your position. >> thank you. do you have a power point >> if i can help present and put it up. we will go ahead and start with the title introduction first. today we pl

kate, the good news, i think, is what you were talking. >> about, to take a breath halfway through that suggests exactly how he feels about it. >> yeah. the good news, maybe, is what howard lutnick said yesterday afternoon. he was sort of hinting at maybe some sort of a >> points the s&p 500, only 0.4%. this is a very tiny rebound after what we've seen in the last few days because the dow plunged 1300 points combined on monday and tuesday. >> the s&p 500 has given back all of the post-election gains. look at this. we're back to election day right now. i think the the message from the market, kate, i think is pretty clear, right, that tariffs are dangerous and they're particularly dangerous right now because inflation is already a problem. everyone is very sensitive to higher prices. the federal reserve is worried about inflation. and listen the economy is already slowing down. it's hard to see how waging a trade war with your three biggest trading partners is going to help any of that. >> yeah. so if as president trump and his tariff team economic team want to argue that this is good for the american worker and the american people, they've got a lot of work to do to conv