Jacob Frey

With this administration, it was a pretty quick zero to 100, not as far as this operation goes, but as the general mentality of what they were doing.

And look, you always expect different ideologies and values with a new administration, especially a new administration that is of a different party.

But this is something entirely different, even from the first Trump administration.

We did not see this kind of conduct

to this degree with the first Trump administration.

And I think it was probably 20 or 30 days or something like that, maybe even less after Trump was sworn into this term.

I got a letter on my desk from, I believe, the Office of Management and Budget that quite literally said that all grants that were provided to the city of Minneapolis, totaling somewhere in the range of $70 million, would be cut off.

And the basic...

lever that they were trying to pull was you will lose this money if you don't get rid of all diversity work and you stop the separation.

It is.

And there's...

a ton of legal dictum on this particular issue of how much can, you know, the federal government influence or coerce cities based on some alternate policy that has nothing to do with that.

Right.

And so, but they've taken a pretty extreme line on how they're doing.

I have not had that conversation because the way they're framing this up, sadly, is not about safety.

I don't even think it's about immigration.

I think this is political retribution.

I think you feel like it's all about George Floyd.

I don't know, George Floyd.

I think it's about Tim Walz.