AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

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🗓️ 8 March 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on young voters turning against Trump as he destroys their educational opportunities including gutting the Department of Education and Meiselas speaks with AFT President Randi Weingarten about how massive education cuts by Trump are hurting red states and blue states alike. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	Some new data out. Young voters are one of the largest groups turning against Donald Trump,
0:36.6	almost a 70% disapproval rating for Donald Trump
0:41.3	among young voters.
0:43.0	And maybe it's because Donald Trump is stealing their hope, streams, aspirations, future
0:48.0	education.
0:49.6	I mean, Donald Trump's out there every day attacking education.
0:53.9	This was him recently in the Oval Office saying Linda McMahon, who has recently been confirmed as Secretary of Education, should use her job to get rid of her job and to gut and destroy and abolish the Department of Education.
1:08.3	Here's Trump saying it.
1:09.5	Why nominate Linda McMahon to be the
1:12.7	Education Department Secretary if you're going to get rid of the education? Because I told Linda,
1:17.4	Linda, I hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job. I want her to put herself out of a job.
1:24.0	Education Department. So we're ranked number 40 out of 40 schools, right? We're ranked
1:29.4	number one in course per pupil. So we spend more per pupil than any other country in the
1:33.5	world, and we're ranked at the bottom of the list. We're ranked very badly. And what I want to do
1:38.9	is let the states run schools. I believe strongly in school choice, but in addition to that,
1:45.3	I want the states to run schools. And I want Linda to put herself out of a job. Fact check, states already run schools.
1:51.2	Donald Trump has no clue what the Department of Education does. Here was Linda McMahon earlier saying
1:55.7	that she does intend to abolish her own department. Let's show you that. So we've heard that he could be
2:01.7	signing this executive order today to abolish the Department of Education. Is that coming today?
2:07.6	I don't know. I don't want to get ahead of the president. I think you'd have to check with the
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