 Everyone, Brian Buckwalder here at the 2023 DAV and Auxiliary National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. And I'm here with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Dennis McDonough, who just got finished addressing our members. And thank you so much for taking a couple minutes of time. Absolutely, great to be with you. You said in your speech that 2023 is the year of execution. Why this year and how does that look for our veterans? Yeah, look, thank you for the question and thank you for the opportunity to be with you guys and to talk to all of DAV. The reason it's the year of execution is last August, thanks to DAV, tireless work. The President was able to sign into law the PACT Act. And the PACT Act is the can be the largest expansion of healthcare and benefits in the history of VA. And it'll only be that if we execute it well. So that's why we're out in communities across the country. That's why we're have a claims clinic stood up right here at the DAV convention to make sure that everybody who can file a claim will file a claim. So that's what I mean by execution. So what do we know so far? Now, this is maybe a couple days old. We have over 800,000 claims having been filed under the PACT Act. 450,000 of those claims have been processed and we're awarding at a grant rate of 80%, maybe a little bit under 79.6%. So that's the beginning of that execution, but we're going to stay on top of this. And what I said today is hold us to account, DAV, to make sure that we close this deal, get more claims filed and then process those claims in a timely way. And let's get our vets the care and the benefits they've earned. Excellent. And just to follow up a little bit on that, how does the relationship between DAV and the VA best serve veterans? Well, look, the very concretely, you heard it from one of our speakers today, Scott, the great former employee for us at our vet centers here in New Jersey. He told his story and it was a DAV veteran service representative who, veteran service officer, who helped him file his claim and get his care and get his access to benefits. And that's what changed his life. He had until that moment, he just testified, felt ashamed to come into VA because he had been medically discharged. He wanted to be able to continue to serve. DAV helped him out. That's one way our partnership very concretely works. The second way, we would not have this new law without the tireless work of DAV and DAV members across the country demanding that Congress and Washington do the right thing. Excellent. And just as a final question and a final emphasis on this, what is your ultimate message to our members, to veterans all across this country about the PACT Act and this upcoming deadline? Look, my message is to every veteran across the country, please, before the end of the day next Wednesday, file a claim under the PACT Act or file an intent to file a claim under the PACT Act. If you do that, we'll be able to protect for you an effective date of August 10th, 2022. So in effect, you get an extra year of benefits, but you need to file that claim or file that intent to file a claim by the end of the day, August 9th, next Wednesday. Excellent. Mr. Secretary, thank you so much for your time. And for anyone who has any questions about their benefits, anything with their VA claim, be sure to go to benefitsquestions.org. And be sure to follow us all week long here at the DAV and Auxiliary National Convention on our social media.