Karoline Leavitt Says Trump Moves Toward Closing Department of Education in Major Shift | APT - video Dailymotion

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that President Donald Trump has taken a “significant step” toward fulfilling a long-standing campaign promise to close the U.S. Department of Education.  Leavitt said the administration is moving forward with structural reforms aimed at returning power to states, local communities, and parents, arguing that Washington has become overly bureaucratic and ineffective in delivering educational outcomes.  She emphasized that the shift is part of Trump’s broader effort to reduce federal overreach, streamline government operations, and reallocate authority to local districts. The announcement has sparked intense political debate, with critics warning of potential disruptions to national education standards and protections, while supporters say decentralization is long overdue.  #KarolineLeavitt #DonaldTrump #DepartmentOfEducation #EducationPolicy #WashingtonDC #FederalReform #GovernmentOverhaul #TrumpAdministration #EducationDebate #PoliticalNews #APTNews

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00:00Good afternoon, everybody. I brought a very special guest with me today, as you can see,

00:10Secretary McMahon. So I will begin my remarks. She's going to speak, and then we'll take some

00:14questions. She'll take questions, and I'll take questions from you as well. First off, yesterday,

00:19First Lady Melania Trump and Second Lady Usha Vance traveled to Marine Corps Air Station New

00:24River and Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where they spent the day meeting with students, educators,

00:31military families, and United States Marines. Both the First Lady and Second Lady were grateful for

00:37the warm welcome and remain deeply committed to supporting military families and the communities

00:42that serve our great nation. May God bless all of them. In economic news, the September jobs report

00:49showed the American economy remains strong, with 119,000 new jobs added, more than double

00:56expectations. These gains came after the summer passage of President Trump's historic tax cuts

01:03and multiple big trade deals with countries around the world. In particular, construction jobs surged by

01:1019,000 in September, the largest monthly gain in a year. Nearly all of this solid monthly job growth

01:17came from the private sector and went to Americans rather than foreign-born workers, the opposite of

01:24what we saw under the previous administration. Inflation also remains under control, and wages are

01:30up by 3.8 percent over the year for American workers because of President Trump's pro-growth policies.

01:37In fact, real wages are on pace to increase roughly $1,200 for the average worker this year

01:43under President Trump. This is a complete reversal of the failed Biden era, when we saw inflation

01:50skyrocket to 9 percent, causing private sector workers to see their wages decline by approximately

01:56$3,000. We know that Americans are still hurting from the four-decade high inflation caused by Joe Biden

02:03and the Democrats, but President Trump is making significant progress to fix this, and he will not

02:10stop working until he solves it. As the President recently stated, he is never satisfied.

02:17For example, President Trump's policies are working to make Americans Thanksgiving more affordable this year,

02:23from their commute to the dinner table. Nearly 100 million Americans are expected to drive next week

02:29to spend time with loved ones for the holiday. And thanks to President Trump's drill-baby-drill agenda,

02:34the national average price of a gallon of gas on Thanksgiving Day is projected to be at the

02:40cheapest price since the COVID pandemic in 2021. President Trump is bringing down gas prices and

02:47providing significant savings to American families at the pump. And again, we expect those prices to

02:52continue to decline. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation's annual survey, cooking Thanksgiving

02:59dinner will also cost less this year than it did last year and is down about 5% overall. The average price

03:07for a staple of the meal, a 16-pound frozen turkey, is down more than 16% from last year, which will

03:14provide critical savings for families and their budgets. President Trump's entire economic agenda is

03:21aimed at putting more money back into the pockets of hard-working Americans. That's why he signed the largest

03:28middle tax class tax cuts in history into law, from no tax on overtime, no tax on tips, to no tax on

03:35Social Security. And according to a new study from Piper Sandler, which is out this week, tax filers can

03:41expect an extra $1,000 bump to their tax refund next year in what could be a record-breaking tax refund

03:49season. So there is more good news to come. We know these refunds will make a huge difference for

03:54Americans to help pay down their bills and use towards life's expenses. In other news this week,

04:00President Trump took a significant step toward delivering on a core campaign promise to finally

04:06close the Department of Education. To shrink the bloated federal bureaucracy, the Department of

04:11Education just entered into new interagency agreements with four agencies, the Departments of Labor,

04:18Interior, Health and Human Services, and State. These agencies will now ensure the delivery of legally

04:24programs while also refocusing them to better serve students. This common sense action brings

04:30the Trump administration much closer to finally returning education where it belongs, at the state

04:36and local level, not in Washington, D.C. The Democrats' reckless 43-day government shutdown did manage to do

04:44one valuable thing. It proved that America does not need a federal Department of Education. During the

04:51longest shutdown in history, the Department of Education furloughed 90 percent of its staff,

04:57and America's education system was not impacted whatsoever. Schools stayed fully open across the

05:04country. Students attended class and received normal in-person instruction, and our wonderful teachers

05:10received their paychecks uninterrupted. The Democrats' government shutdown made it painfully obvious that

05:17American families do not need the Department of Education. Since its creation in 1979 during the

05:23Carter administration, the Department of Ed has spent over three trillion taxpayer dollars without

05:30improving student achievement. Despite peer-pupil spending having increased by more than 245 percent

05:37since the 1970s, math and reading scores are down in public schools. In fact, the most recent

05:44nation's report card from 2024 showed that 13-year-olds' math scores are the lowest they've

05:49been in decades, and their reading scores are the lowest since testing began more than 30 years ago.

05:55It's clear that throwing more money at a broken system does not work, and that's why President Trump

06:00appointed the amazing leader behind me, our Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, who is making these

06:07monumental changes at the direction of the president. We're very grateful to have you here today to talk

06:12about these changes and then take some questions. Hopefully folks in this room will have some

06:15questions on the very important topic of education. So please, Mr. Secretary.

06:19Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Caroline. It's really a pleasure to be here with you today, and thank all of you

06:25for being here as well. My purpose here is to speak directly to the American families, not just you, but to

06:32the American families, about the work this administration is doing in education to reverse our national decline

06:38with a hard reset of our educational system. That reset was a top campaign promise from President Trump

06:45to send education back to the states and end Washington's micromanagement of education once

06:51and for all. This week, we took the most decisive steps thus far to make good on this promise to you.

06:58We have linked six groundbreaking partnerships with other federal agencies to delegate education department

07:04programs that are redundant with existing programs at labor, state, interior, and HHS. These interagency

07:11agreements to cut our own bureaucratic bloat are a key step in our efforts to shift educational authority

07:18from Washington, D.C. to your state education agency, your local superintendent, your local school board,

07:25entities that are accountable to you, and we encourage parents to always be involved. Cutting federal

07:32bureaucracy is never a popular move.

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