Thursday, May 21, 2026. Americans know who's to blame for the awful economy and they also know who's been working to enrich himself from the Oval Office as polling makes clear. All of this and Chump's slush fund.
At least 42 U.S. military aircraft — including fighter jets, drones,
refueling tankers, and reconnaissance planes — were lost or damaged
during the war with Iran, according to a report by the Congressional
Research Service, highlighting the scale and cost of a conflict that
Washington had expected to dominate from the air.
The losses
Among
the aircraft lost were some of the United States’ most advanced
systems, including four F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets, one F-35A
Lightning II stealth fighter, one A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack
aircraft, seven KC-135 Stratotanker tanker aircraft, one E-3 Sentry
reconnaissance aircraft, two MC-130J Commando II special operations
aircraft, one HH-60W Jolly Green II rescue helicopter, 24 MQ-9 Reaper
drones, and one MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone.
These figures emerged as the Pentagon revealed that the cost of
military operations under Operation Epic Fury had already reached nearly
$29 billion.
“Much of this increase stems from a more accurate
estimate of the costs of repairing or replacing equipment,” said Jules
Hurst III, the Pentagon’s chief financial officer, during a May 12
hearing.
However, the growing number of aircraft losses risks
intensifying the debate over the true cost of the war and whether Iran
inflicted far greater damage on American forces than was initially
acknowledged.
The report is particularly significant because the
United States Department of Defense has not released a complete official
accounting of combat losses. Congressional researchers instead compiled
the figures using Pentagon statements, United States Central Command
briefings, and press reports.
They've lied. Chump and Hegseth and others have lied. It's only due to the Congressional Research Service that we know the number 42. Chump hasn't told us that, Hegseth hasn't told us that.
During a speech on Feb. 19, President Donald Trump declared victory on the cost-of-living front amid cooling inflation.
“What
word have you not heard over the last two weeks? Affordability,” Trump
said during a public appearance at the Coosa Steel plant in Rome, Ga.
(1). “Because I’ve won. I’ve won affordability.”
[. . .]
As of May, 2026, the inflation rate sits at 3.8% — a three year high.
Americans
have also reported feeling more pain over the last year, and the
prospect of a prolonged war in Iran adds an element of uncertainty, too.
The
nationwide average gas price in the U.S. climbed to $4.55 per gallon on
Wednesday, up by nearly $1.60 since late February, before the U.S. and
Israel launched joint strikes on Iran.
It is
inching closer to the national average of $4.56 reported on May 7, the
highest price since the start of the war in the Middle East and the
highest under President Donald Trump’s second tenure.
If
$4.55 per gallon sounds like a very high sum already, it is worth
considering that some Americans have it much worse. According to the
latest data by the American Automobile Association (AAA), drivers in
California are paying the highest price to fill the tank on Wednesday,
for a statewide average of $6.14 per gallon of regular gas—up from
approximately $4.45 per gallon in late February.
In five other states, including Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, the statewide average was above the $5 mark.
Chump's bad for everyone as he continues to destroy the US economy. And it's the perfect storm for farmers as Alexa St. John and Charlie Riedel (AP) note,
"Record-setting drought and hotter-than-average temperatures mixed with
sharp drops have impacted much of the U.S. early this year, including
the Plains region. Drought conditions have worsened the spread of the
wheat streak mosaic virus and barley yellow dwarf virus, which impact
the potential of the crop. Combined with climbing input costs related to fertilizer, diesel fuel and tariffs,
longtime wheat farmers say they are feeling a lot of pain." The
hospitality industry and the tourism industry have also taken a big hit
under Chump. Dale Johnson (BBC NEWS) becomes the latest to note that the tourism for the World Cup doesn't appear to be coming to America:
The World Cup was supposed to provide a tourism boom for the US, but now the fear is it may never materialise.
A report
produced by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) has
found that bookings are well below expectations in almost every host
city.
The AHLA said this does not align with Fifa's statement that more than five million tickets have been sold, and it creates a risk that "the anticipated economic lift may fall short".
Homeland
Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has outlined Immigration and
Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) planned role in security operations for the
2026 FIFA World Cup, as the tournament faces signs of
weaker-than-expected ticket demand in the weeks leading up to kickoff.
In
a video posted on the agency’s X account, Secretary Mullin said federal
agencies would crack down on counterfeit goods and human trafficking.
[. . .]
U.S.
travel and immigration policies have come under increased scrutiny
ahead of the tournament. The Trump administration says it has approved
more than five million applications through the Electronic System for
Travel Authorization (ESTA), a move that could help drive visitor
numbers from visa-waiver countries. However, the uptick follows months
of concern from tourism and industry groups, which warn that tougher
immigration enforcement and travel restrictions targeting other nations
may still deter some international fans from making the trip.
Because
of reality and what we can see with our own eyes being more powerful
than lies from the Oval Office, most Americans blame Donald Chump for
the economy. Almira Dolino (BLUSHER ME) reports:
Seven
out of ten Americans walking into a grocery store, filling up a gas
tank, or paying a monthly utility bill are arriving at the same
conclusion: the policies coming out of the White House are making it
harder to get by. A CNN survey released Tuesday found that 77% of U.S.
adults believe President Trump's policies have increased the cost of
living in their communities. That number includes a majority of
Republicans. Only 8% say costs have gone down under his watch.
The
poll, conducted by SSRS from April 30 to May 4 among 1,499 U.S. adults,
carries a margin of error of 2.8 percentage points. Respondents were
asked to identify which specific policies had hurt their finances the
most. The Iran war topped the list at 75%, followed by tariffs at 65%,
artificial intelligence at 46%, and changes to tax laws at 41%. The
breadth of that list signals that Americans are not reacting to a single
policy. They are reacting to an entire direction.
Behind
the numbers is a broader picture of economic pain that has been
building since Trump began his second term. Inflation hit 3.8% in April,
the highest level since May 2023, driven primarily by rising energy
costs. Trump's economic approval rating has fallen to 30%, a new career
low. On gas prices specifically, only 21% of Americans approve of how he
is handling the situation. The data points toward a public that has
grown not just frustrated, but convinced. And then comes the question of
who they blame for it.
Again,
there are Chump's lies and then there's what we can verify with our
eyes as we stand at the gas pump or in line at the grocery store or
sitting down and staring at our bills. Chump has been a bust for
everyone. Matthew Rozsa notes:
President
Donald Trump’s spending in his second term, which is on pace to reach
$9 to $10 trillion by the start of 2029, is so bad that one of Trump’s
former aides believes a Democratic president would be impeached for it.
“If
Barack Obama had done half of what Trump is doing now, Fox News would
have been calling for impeachment,” Anthony Scaramucci, former White
House Communications Director during Trump’s first term, posted on X on
Tuesday.
“Trump has no economic philosophy,” he
added. “He spent $8.2 trillion in his first term and he's on pace for $9
to $10 trillion in this one. We're at 100 percent debt to GDP held by
investors — 122 percent if you count the Fed's balance sheet. Ray Dalio
will tell you those numbers put you in sovereign debt crisis territory.
And when that happens, the only way politicians are willing to pay for
it is through inflation. Which is the cruelest possible outcome, because
inflation is the worst tax you can impose on lower and middle income
people.”
Earlier this month, Scaramucci even pointed out that his Wall Street friends are concerned about Trump’s economic policies.
"Trump is too dangerous,” Scaramucci said at the time.
“It’s funny, all my Wall Street buddies voted for him and now they’re
regretting the fact," later clarifying that "most of the people are.”
Driving the economy into the ditch is so many things but chief among them are Chump's tariffs and his war of choice with Iran. Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling (THE NEW REPUBLIC) notes that the damage the war is doing on the economy is of no concern to Chump:
The president said he is in no rush to end the Iran war—and could be about to drag his own party down in the process.
One
day after promising to end his Middle East conflict in “two or three
days,” Donald Trump told reporters that he is in “no hurry” to make a
deal with Iran.
“Everyone is saying, ‘Oh, the midterms,’” Trump said to reporters at Joint Base Andrews Wednesday. “I’m in no hurry.”
It’s
a dramatically different timeline from the one Trump offered Tuesday,
in which the president stated in no uncertain terms that Tehran had
until Sunday to come to the negotiating table.
In
fairness to Chump, he may be lying. He lies a lot. A whole lot. And
it's equally true that he's dealing with Gulf leaders who already put an
end to his Monday "last chance" ultimatum. TACO. Last week, of
course, he told the world that he wasn't concerned about the way the
economy was impacting Americans.
The
United States spends more than any other nation on defense, but even
with a huge amount of money allocated to the military, Donald Trump
still wants more cash, and the Americans aren’t happy with his recent
proposal.
Trump has long suggested
that he wanted to see the defense budget set at $1.5 trillion. That
amount of money would be four times more than the next highest spending
nation, China, according to Common Dreams. However, in late April 2026,
the Pentagon revealed its 2027 budget request, and it was high.
On
April 21st, the 2027 fiscal year budget request of $1.5 trillion was
made public during a briefing at the Pentagon. The $1.5 trillion request
was the largest defense budget request that the Department of Defense
has ever asked for in US history.
[. . .]
The
2027 fiscal year budget proposal is 42% higher than the previous year,
and it aims to “supercharge” the American defense industrial base by
expanding the production of major weapon systems.
[. . .]
While
the Trump administration has been trying to sell the defense budget
increase as a necessary expense, Americans aren’t buying what Trump’s
officials are selling, at least according to a new poll from Rethink
Media and the Costs of War Project at Brown University, which found that
6 in 10 Americans think the new defense budget number is too costly.
Turning to Chump's slush fund. Here's Senator Patty Murray speaking at Tuesday's Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing:
Acting
Attorney General, right now families are paying four, five -- even six or
seven dollars for gas. Inflation is at its highest level in years
because of the president’s policies, but instead of helping Americans
get by, President Trump is literally using their tax dollars to set up a
slush fund to enrich his own friends. On Monday, your department
settled the president's lawsuit by setting up a fund with $1.8 billion,
and you and the president will pick the handful of people who decide how
that money gets doled out. So let's be clear: what we are talking about
is nothing short of the sitting President of the United States looting
from the Treasury for his own gain. Do you seriously think this
arrangement is appropriate? The president telling the federal government
to settle a case and let him pay billions to the people that he
chooses?
The
Justice Department is creating a $1.8 billion fund—a symbolic $1,776
billion, to be exact—that will be doled out to people deemed to have
been improperly targeted by the Biden-era DOJ. "The machinery of
government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is
this Department's intention to make right the wrongs that were
previously done while ensuring this never happens again," acting
Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a public statement. The White
House thus calls it an "anti-weaponization fund," but critics are
sounding a much different theme:
・The editorial page of the Wall Street Journal
describes the precedent as "astounding" and warns it might backfire on
Republicans. Assuming it comes to pass, the fund is "sure to become a
highlight reel of Trump Administration payments to Mr. Trump's friends
and allies," reads the editorial. "Imagine the fun Democrats will have
documenting it all between now and 2028 as the worst kind of Washington
political payoff."
・A Washington Post editorial
also cites the precedent, warning that if "this stands, it will become a
template for all future American presidents to shower financial
benefits on friends and allies without accountability." Trump, they
write, "is stretching executive authority to a breaking point," and
Democratic lawmakers should take note. "The $1.776 billion to be
deposited in the settlement fund is meant to evoke the year Americans
declared independence. It's a reminder that spending taxpayer funds
without the consent of their representatives is liable to generate
revolutionary sentiments."
The $1.8 billion fund created by the Trump administration this week to pay people who claim mistreatment
by the federal government appears to violate longstanding Justice
Department standards and practices, as well as a policy directive issued
by the administration last year, legal experts said on Wednesday.
Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, defended the fund at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, calling it “unusual” but insisting it was appropriate and reflective of past settlements.
Justice
Department veterans have been deeply skeptical of those claims,
particularly when it comes to a provision in the deal that offers
President Trump, his sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr., and the Trump
Organization immunity from tax penalties. They have also been critical
of the decision to resolve a lawsuit filed by one group of people in a
way that gives more than a billion dollars to an entirely different
category of people.
“I have never
heard of the department ever being willing to grant blanket immunity,”
said Jennifer Ricketts, a former branch director in the department’s
civil division. “That seems blatantly corrupt. It’s a shocking gift to
the president.”
Justice Department veterans also said the
new fund appeared to contradict a specific policy instituted by the
Trump administration last year under former Attorney General Pam Bondi
that largely prohibited payments to groups not involved in an underlying
lawsuit.
A Justice Department spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.
The
deal struck between the president’s lawyers and his own administration,
without oversight of a judge, could involve major payouts to people who
had not sued the government, as well.
And that's what I don't get.
A judge steps in and says, of the $10 billion deal, no, no, this is Chump as plaintiff and as defendent. You can't do that. But this new deal is the exact same thing. No one was representing the people of the United States. This was citizen Chump saying what he wanted and President Chump ordering the agencies to go along with it.
This is corruption plain and simple and it's just as corrupt as the $10 billion deal would have been.
It is hard to imagine that any previous president would have thought he could engage in such an audacious act of self-dealing.
Sue the government he runs, then settle the lawsuit with himself by barring the Internal Revenue Service from auditing his past returns. And as part of that deal, hand over $1.8 billion of taxpayer money to his allies.
President
Trump has used the federal government to advance his own personal
interests and those of his family and allies more expansively and openly
than any past occupant of the White House. Any review of history would
suggest that it is not even close.
But
as Mr. Trump, the only convicted felon ever elected president, heads
deeper into his second term, he seems even less inhibited by the rules,
written or unwritten, that governed his predecessors. While deeply
unpopular with the general public, he has demonstrated as recently as
this week that he remains the undisputed master of his own party, and
therefore appears to feel that he can do as he likes without fear of
Congress standing in his way.
A
majority of voters have said Donald Trump is using his office for
personal gain, as the president promised that “America is thriving.”
In
typical fashion, Trump boasted about what he called the “hottest
country anywhere in the world” under his leadership at the White House
Congressional Picnic Tuesday night, which included a food tent and
Ferris wheel on the South Lawn.
“America
is thriving, America is winning, and America is respected, perhaps like
it has never been respected before,” he told members of Congress as
their constituents deal with soaring gas prices and high grocery bills.
As
Americans struggle with the cost of living, 59 percent believe Trump is
using the presidency for personal gain, according to a new The Economist/YouGov poll. Just 30 percent said the president was not using his office for his own benefit.
Let's say it plainly: There has never been a president as corrupt as Donald Trump. There is no close second in our history.
Take
two days in May as Exhibit A. Americans just found out that in the
first quarter of this year, Trump's stock portfolio made 3,600 trades -
an average of nearly 60 a day. This is a rapacious pace that would make a
day trader on meth blush. Many of these appear suspiciously timed to
benefit from actions approved by the president himself. For example, his
Nvidia stock surged after Trump announced the company would be
permitted to sell its cutting-edge AI chips to China. Similar
suspiciously well-timed calls were made ahead of big government moves
involving other companies, from Intel to Palantir to Boeing. The Trump
Organization says all trades are made by a third-party investment
advisor. If so, they appear to be psychic.
But the
apparent insider trading scam being run from within the Oval Office is
small change - merely millions of dollars - compared to the self-dealing
plunder of $1.8 billion tax-payer dollars being pushed through the DOJ
and IRS.
There's never been a sitting president
who sued his own government for $10 billion. That's because it's
absurdly corrupt. But that's what Donald Trump did, arguing he had
suffered damages from prosecutions pursued before he was reelected.
Trump, like many of his supporters, persistently confuses persecution
with prosecution.
The judge who heard the case
convened an independent panel to review the suit, suspecting it might be
a scam. Before the case could be dismissed, Acting Attorney General
Todd Blanche - who had previously served as Trump's personal lawyer -
declared that the bogus suit would be preemptively settled, not for $10
billion, but for the symbolic sum of $1.776 billion, which Trump said
will be distributed to persecuted political allies.
This
is a shakedown. The president is compelling a Justice Department he
controls to redirect money from taxpayers - that's you - to his most
fervent supporters. This slush fund will set off a cash grab among MAGA
lawyers and be used to reward partisan fanatics who attacked the U.S.
Capitol - and police officers - on his behalf.
If
that wasn't enough of a blatantly illegal use of presidential power, it
was revealed that the "settlement" deal included a pledge signed by the
acting attorney general that would ensure - in the hysterical all caps
of a Trump tweet - that the government would be "FOREVER BARRED and
PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing" any tax claims, audits or
related prosecutions against Trump, his family or their businesses. This
is an attempt to get a permanent get-out-of-jail-free card for the
Trump family - a license to steal.
All of this
is insane. All of it is unethical, and much of it is illegal and
impeachable - but our system was not designed to deal with a shamelessly
self-dealing president, a spineless Republican Congress, and a
complaint conservative Supreme Court that has refused to enforce the
emoluments clause of the Constitution and ruled that Trump has immunity
for actions he takes as president.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:
Washington, D.C. — Today, at a Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee (SVAC) hearing
on the FY27 budget request for the Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA)—U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate
Appropriations Committee and a former chair and senior member of SVAC,
questioned Secretary Doug Collins on VA’s decision not to comply with
the law and roll out a childcare program, increased wait times at VA,
and the electronic health record (EHR) rollout at Mann Grandstaff.
[CHILD CARE CENTERS AT VA]
Senator Murray began by pressing Secretary Collins on VA’s
acknowledgement that the VA Kids Care program is no longer being
implemented, going against the requirement in the Isakson-Roe Veterans Health Care Improvement Act, which authorizedVA’s Childcare Assistance Program.
MURRAY: Mr. Secretary, in December of 2020, actually
when you were serving in the House, Congress passed the Isakson-Roe
Veterans Health Care Improvement Act by unanimous consent. And it was
signed into law by President Trump during his first term. Section 5107
of that law says that the secretary shall provide a form of child care
assistance by January 5, 2026, to all veterans during their VA
appointments.
Last year, your budget requested $22 million to open Kids Care sites
at 13 VA medical facilities, and Congress delivered on that request. But
you’re only planning to use $1 million of those funds in FY26. And this
year’s budget request has one sentence about the program, which was
actually our first notification that the VA Kids Care program is no
longer being implemented.
Now VA’s own data shows that 58 percent of veterans with children
have no-showed or cancelled their appointment, why? Because of lack of
child care.
So I wanted to ask you today, what is your plan to restart this program and comply with the law?
COLLINS: I think, Senator, we’re fully planning to
comply with law. It is sort of obviously [unintelligible] of the
previous administration didn’t move forward on this. We’re trying to
move forward with it. Richard can give you some more information on that
issue, but this is where it was left with us.
TOPPING: And ma’am, you do know we’ve got two sites
up and running, American Lake and Chillicothe. We are pulling in the
utilization demand and outcomes data, so that we can drive this forward.
We’re looking at reimbursement models as well. As we get the data, we
can make the decisions and come back, and that will be in our budget
request. But we are moving to implement the law.
MURRAY: Let me be clear—this is a law, it is not a
suggestion, it’s a law—and we have provided the funding you need to
ensure that veterans do have the child care they need to get to their
appointments. So I just want you to know I am going to keep—we’re going
to make sure we fund this program, and I will be following up to make
sure that the mandate is followed.
COLLINS: I appreciate it, we agree that this part,
again, like I said, this was left for four years, never really done
anything with. We’re still trying to get it implemented, and we’re doing
everything we possibly can to do it.
[INCREASING WAIT TIMES FOR VA CARE]
Senator Murray asked Secretary Collins about how VA’s dramatic
reduction in workforce last year has led to increased wait times for
medical appointments, reduced access to specialty and mental healthcare,
degraded security at VA medical centers, and created a significant
backlog in claims processing.
MURRAY: Moving on. Secretary Collins, last month I
had a roundtable with veterans in my home state of Washington. And I
heard from a number of them that wait times for behavioral health care
can sometimes be up to 90 days. That is 90 days, for behavioral health,
unacceptable.
Community care can’t be the answer, because it often takes community
care providers longer to treat veterans than it would if that veteran
remained with the VA. Those same advocates that I met with told me that
it can take up to 10 months to fill certain positions. And yet, VA’s
budget is requesting 6,000 fewer employees than VHA had in 2025.
So I want to hear specifically from you what you’re doing to help
address this crisis. How many more doctors and nurses has the VA hired
since you took over?
COLLINS: Are you talking—okay? There’s several questions there. Which one do you want to go with first?
MURRAY: Well you start with where you have an answer?
COLLINS: The I think, let’s start off first off at
the at the mental health side. There is nothing at this point keeping
any of our facilities from hiring the mental health professional that
they need. That can be hired at any point, our overall VA wide our
mental health appointments have come down. In fact, they have come down
two to three days, wherever across the country.
MURRAY: What do you mean come down? Wait times?
COLLINS: I’m sorry.
MURRAY: You’re trying to say wait times?
COLLINS: Yes, mental health has improved 2.8 days just this year from 17.8 to 15.
MURRAY: Well let me just tell you, I heard directly
from veterans myself and from VA staff. And one VA nurse actually talked
to me about how she had 3,200 patients at one point and when she’d get
into the office, she said she’d just look at her screen and start
crying—because she knew how many veterans were in crisis and needed her.
And that’s just overwhelming.
So we’re in this position because Trump did push out many
people—however you’re going to characterize it—and now we’re having the
consequences. And I am told you are holding these clinical positions
flat, instead of hiring for providers that our veterans need.
COLLINS: we’re not, and I think here’s the issue, is
that you have a clinical provider that’s telling you this, but yet not
bringing it up the chain and to the proper areas to actually getting
something fixed.
MURRAY: I’m telling it to you.
COLLINS: Well, I appreciate that. But also if you’re
working in the system and you’re listening to this today and you’re
working in the VA facility that I’m over, and you’re not letting your
leadership or making sure your leadership is aware that we need certain
things. Then I got to have VA employees who are willing to step forward.
MURRAY: Well I’m listening to this woman, I’m pretty sure she was letting everybody know.
COLLINS: Then we will address it and look forward to
it. And I look forward to working with you to continue this. I think
the biggest issue here though is looking at the facilities, looking at
what they need and how we need to go about this.
MURRAY: I just want you to be aware that out in the
field, where it counts, mental health is a real crisis, and I am hearing
from the VA themselves, I’m hearing from veterans that there’s a real
crisis in staffing. So—
COLLINS: And I appreciate that, Senator. I’m on the
road at least almost two weeks a month, I’ve been in 71 hospitals, and I
go not just for the dog and pony show, I actually go through waiting
rooms, I go through patients’ rooms, and we talk about this. There are
issues. The VA is not perfect, and I told you that the day we had our
confirmation hearing, but the one thing is, we can get better and we’ll
continue to.
MURRAY: Well I have limited time here, I just want you to know you need to be aware that this is a huge problem.
COLLINS: I am aware. Thank you.
[EHR ROLLOUT]
Senator Murray then addressed the failed EHR rollout at Mann Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington.
MURRAY: Now, let me have one last question. As you
know, when the first Trump administration rolled the EHR out in
Washington state, it was a disaster.
COLLINS: Yes.
MURRAY: So, I’m really glad to see that the most recent roll outs, as you mentioned a few minutes ago, seem to have gone better.
But I want to, for my own information, when was the last time you spoke directly with providers at Mann Grandstaff?
COLLINS: I have not talked to a provider there recently, no.
MURRAY: Okay, I would like you to, because we cannot
ignore the fact that those original sites are still seeing problems and
you need to be aware of that. So, as you move forward with the 13 new
ones, I want to make sure that the budget supports both deploying to
those new sites and making sure that the old ones that have been out
there are improving, and I expect and would like to ask for a detailed
plan on how you will—
COLLINS: We can. I’ll have Dr. Lawrence make sure
that he gets you that plan, because we are trying to update the
facilities. Look, what happened in Washington state was frankly wrong.
It was bad, and you had six facilities that were allowed to act as if
they were independent, not connected, and do whatever they wanted to do,
and you had subsystem software problems. We’ve not had that problem,
we’ve fixed that issue moving forward, and we’re going to go back and
fix those as well. So, I’ll get you that information. I agree with you, I
agree with you completely.
MURRAY: Alright check back with Mann Grandstaff,
because I just have to say I’m excited that you’re moving out and not
hearing complaints. That’s great, but we still have problems at the
original site.
COLLINS: And that is what drives me every day to make sure we get it right this time.
