00:00After 45 years, the United States spends more money on education, by far, than any other
00:29country, and spends, likewise, by far, more money per pupil than any country, and it's
00:37not even close.
00:38But yet, we rank near the bottom of the list in terms of success.
00:43Despite these breathtaking failures, the Department's discretionary budget has exploded by 600 percent
00:50in a very short period of time, and it employs bureaucrats in buildings all over Washington,
00:56D.C.
00:57As a former real estate person, I will tell you, I ride through the streets of Washington
01:01and it says, Department of Education, Department of Education.
01:06I said, how do you fill those buildings?
01:08It's crazy what's happened over the years.
01:11But we're going to be returning education, very simply, back to the states where it belongs,
01:17and this is a very popular thing to do, but much more importantly, it's a common sense
01:22thing to do, and it's going to work.
01:24Absolutely, it's going to work, but beyond these core necessities, my administration
01:29will take all lawful steps to shut down the department.
01:33We're going to shut it down, and shut it down as quickly as possible.
01:36It's doing us no good.
01:37We want to return our students to the states where just some of the governors here are
01:42so happy about this.
01:44They want education to come back to them, to come back to the states, and they're going
01:48to do a phenomenal job.
01:50We're going to love and cherish our teachers, along with our children, and they're going
01:54to work with the parents, and they're going to work with everybody else, and it's going
01:57to be an amazing thing to watch, and it's really going to be something special.
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