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116 As I sit here today, I don't know if that's the case. I'm not sure what the interactions were regarding when to and not to share the budget and who made those decisions. I'd have to go back and look at a whole host of documents to figure it out.

But who, other than you, as the head of transition would've made those decisions?

No. So, when you say I'm the head and I'm making sort of the balls and strikes call, I was not. We left that in place for Washington Headquarters Services and Tom Muir and his team to make those calls. They would inform me and keep me up to date, and a lot of the decisions were adjudicated by Deputy Secretary Norquist because, especially with the budget, he was the guru. I was far from the budget guy, and when they felt it was prepared enough to present, I left it to them to make that decision.

So did you respond to any request to have the budget provided to the Biden-Harris team earlier?

Did I personally?

Correct.

Not that I can remember.

Were you involved in the decisionmaking regarding the—kind of the ceasing of engaging with the Biden-Harris team in mid-December?

So I think I know what you're talking about, and I appreciate you providing that document. I forget what number it is, but—

Mr. Glabe. Can you point us to a particular exhibit to—

The Witness. They can look for it, but let me just try to answer your question—


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Uh-huh.

—in the interest of time here. What I think you're referring to is there was