Closing Dept. of Ed is surprisingly popular

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00:00A new and surprising poll finds that a majority of voters support shutting down the Department of

00:05Education once they learn the nuts and bolts of exactly how that plan would work. This survey,

00:12commissioned by a school choice non-profit, Yes Every Kid Foundation, found that when voters had

00:18no details about the plan to shutter the department, only 38 percent supported it. But when more

00:22details were offered, like moving some parts of the department under other agencies and preserving

00:28K-12 funding, that number shot up to 56 percent. Abolishing the department has been a top

00:34priority for President Trump, and even though she'd be out of a job, his Secretary of Education,

00:39Linda McMahon, too. Now, officially disbanding it can only be done with an act of Congress,

00:44and Republicans don't have the 60 votes they would need in the Senate to get it done.

00:48So instead, Trump and McMahon have been trying to wind down the department using other legal avenues.

00:54Since taking over, McMahon has slashed nearly half of the agency's workers and consolidated

01:00certain programs to make the department smaller in order to prep it for closure.