How do I tell deno check to ignore this?

> deno check cli/color-test.ts config.ts


Check file:///Users/dan/xall/aStuff/cli/color-test.ts
error: TS2322 [ERROR]: Type 'string' is not assignable to type 'ENVIRONMENTS'.
const ENV: ENVIRONMENTS = the_env || "unspecified";
      ~~~
    at file:///Users/dan/xall/aStuff/cli/color-test.ts:6:7