the senator asked ndia to pause the digital equity grant program. scott, thank you. go ahead and tackle this question of the points either senator cruz or others have been making about the digital equity programs. scott: to know that there is a dialogue that is going on in other states and across the nation. i think what i would like to underscore is what angela said is that there is a distinction between equity obviously and digital equity. if we look at equity as acknowledging that people are at different places into different levels. -- in different levels. we learned very much during the covid pandemic that when folks are able to work and go to school from home, they have degrees to get the services they needed. the work we did with our ecosystem during the planning process to identify the common digital equity barriers for all californians and the digital equity barriers for each of the populations acknowledges there are different barriers and constraints that have to be addressed if our ultimate goal is to ensure for the long term health and sustainability of o