Hi, this is Congressman ███████████ at ██████. ████. I'm calling to invite you to our live telephone town hall that I'm hosting right now. To join. Just stay on the line. I'll be discussing Medicare and Social Security. Again to participate. Stay on the line to ask a question. Press star 3. The call will begin momentarily. Please hold while we connect you to your Access Live event. This Access Live event is currently in progress. Please note that this call may be monitored, recorded or rebroadcast. When you hear your name again, you'll be live on the call, and you'll be able to ask Congressman ████ your question directly. If you're streaming the event this evening, you can post your name and question below the streaming player. You may also sign up for the Congressman's E. Newsletter by pressing star6 at any time during this call. And if you prefer, you may subscribe to the Congressman's newsletter online at ██████████████ again, please press star three now or at any time during the call to ask the Congressman a question or Star six to subscribe to his newsletter. And with that, I'd like to turn the call over to your congressman, ███████████. Congressman, you are live, and the floor is yours, sir. Thank you, █████. Appreciate you being our moderator tonight. And welcome to our Medicare and Social Security town hall. We're going to talk about those issues as well as a range of topics. First and foremost. We know there's a couple issues that are very pressing as of late, but I do want to discuss on the onset. We stand with our troops in the ████ war right now. And, of course, remain deeply concerned. Making sure that we find peace and get a peace agreement as soon as possible. The fee to the Ayatollah was a major victory. Though I remain concerned about his successor. And whether we will see any change. I know we also can't afford to have a long round losing troops and trillions of dollars in our funding. So we will do everything we can to bring peace to the ████ war. As we see it now, and as we see gas spiking at nearly $4 a gallon in central ███████, we know folks are feeling. In addition, the tariffs are continuing to be a huge issue. it's been nearly a year since president █████ levied the tariffs on many different goods from every country across the world this is particularly her groceries raising prices and groceries into a certain extent utilities we saw the supreme