of being run for the education of your kids. so this is deeply unpopular p. nobody wants the department of education eliminated and it's really important for us to explain to the american people why it's happening. senator peters? sen. peters: well, this is a very personal issue for me. i'm the son of a public school teacher. i'm the product of the public schools. my children all went to the public schools as well. and as my colleagues highlighted today, the department of education plays a critical role in success to support students with disabilities and pell grants to make sure americans can go to college. dismantling the department of education will absolutely open up the floodgates for this administration to privatize education as senator murphy has said. and the money taken away from federal education, the money will give tax breaks to billionaires. senator mcmahon and republicans in the past have tried to sell this program as school choice but it's basically avoucher program. as senator murphy mentioned, which gives private schools the ability, private schools will have the abilit

of being run for the education of your kids. this is deeply unpopular, nobody wants the department of education eliminated. it's really important for us to explain to the american people why it is happening. >> this is very personal issue for me. i am the son of a public school teacher, product of the public schools. my children all went to public schools as well. as my colleagues highlighted today, the department of education plays a critical role in student success, from providing ida grants to support students with disabilities to perkins grants to support career and technical education, and pell grants to make sure americans can go to college. dismantling the department of education is also going to absolutely open up the floodgates for this administration to privatize education, as senator murphy said. the funding taken away from public education, we know where the money will go. it will go to give tax breaks to billionaires. newly appointed secretary mcmahon and republicans in the past tried to sell some of this program as school choice but it is basically a voucher program. as senator murphy mentione

right after carter started the process of creating the education department. but this whole issue of it's time to send the money back to the states, let them who are the best equipped to know what their educational needs are for their state. the federal government does, however, fund education for the different states. and we're talking about, you know, tens of millions of dollars. what is the role of the education department? >> sure. >> and to be clear, at most, it's 5% of the federal budget. so we're not talking a lot of money when you consider the entire federal budget, it's. still billions. yes. but again, 5% of trillions of dollars in the federal budget is not something that i think most voters would say would be, in and of itself, wasteful. but when you think about it, rick is right. when you think about the way that the education department is structured in education broadly, yes, most of the decision making is at the state level that majority of the schools in our country are paid by local property taxes. and yet the curriculum is in many ways controll

here's the department of education simply explained. >> put simply, the department of education establishedes most federal assistance to education. >> the first role of the department of education is to redistribute funds to support education in states and school districts and institutions of higher education. >> martin west is a professor at harvard's graduate school of education. >> function two is regulations on the use of the funds. a third function of the department is to enforce federal civil rights laws. a final function of the department is in the research and development space to try to improve the operation of american schools. >> quick history lesson. the current cabinet level department of education was established in 1980. created under president carter the year prior with support from the biggest acher's union in the country. the national education association or nea. >> we knew at the time that we were still in the throes of the civil rights act of the late '60s and the federal government needed to play a role in how our schools were funded. >> she's the president of nea and

eliminate the department of education. i'm a mom and a grandmom. we don't want to eliminate the department of education of education. we want our children educated so that they can grow up and be whatever they want to be. but donald trump doesn't want that. will he do it? sure, he'll do it. will it stick? no. he's so erratic. he's so unreliable. this is an incompetent administration that is making life very difficult for my constituents. >> let's see what next moves happen and what, as we have seen, legal challenges may come from it. another headline that just came through, and this has to do with you have been outspoken in criticizing the doge moves, and we're seeing evidence of the impact of it in a new way this morning. new data analysis just came out that says u.s. employers cut more jobs last month than any february since 2009, the largest share of job cut announcements coming in the government sector. your reaction. >> and what a sad tally that is for the united states economy. and this is allegedly a president who wants to grow jobs. what we

not put it in the department of education. not give it to low-income individuals so they can climb out of poverty. they want to take trillions, trillions of dollars from you, and give it to them. madam president, i ask that these final remarks appear in a separate part of the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. s mr. schatz: thank you, madam president. since taking office just over a month ago, donald trump has rapidly obliterated america's standing as the leader of the free world. decades of hard work, extraordinary sacrifice, and painstaking bipartisan diplomacy to lead our allies and partners against the forces of autocracy and repression have been crushed. and america's reputation as the indispensable nation is in at that timers. -- is in tatters. it started with the illegal dismantling of the united states agency for international development, and continued with the unlawful elimination of virtually all foreign ass assistance, and culminated this last weekend, friday, with the oval office meeting with ukr

linda mcmahon wants to detonate the department of education. so why is she taking the job? just to be disruptive. the blast radius of this order will harm nearly every child, every teacher, every family and every community. taking a chainsaw to the department of education and undermining its mission to educate our next generation would be horrible for our schools. our families. children. secretary mcmahon is supposed to serve. and don't forget, defunding education means property taxes will go up. across the country. particularly in suburban districts. look at this chart. the state that was the most to lose if the education department is dismantled are trump states. in particular, rural states. in rural america, there's one school in the community. you undercut it, and education is dramatically -- and education dramatically declines. the department of session a lifeline for schools across america. without it, rural schools, many of them would vanish. schools will crumble at the foundation. education is the best investment for struggling communities. without good school, witho

department of education. tary linda mcmahon to take all the steps necessary, permitted by law to close the department, which has 4500 employees. political and legal experts say eliminating an entire cabinet department would require congressional approval. the federal corporation that runs the presidio is trying to protect itself from the trump administration. the chronicle reports the presidio trust filed a report showing that it is fully self-sufficient by generating revenue through donations and collecting rents from tenants and businesses. the trust predicts it will earn a record $182 million this year. president trump issued an executive order last month eliminating all aspects of the presidio trust, and the city of oroville is going against the state's sanctuary law. in a 7 to 0 vote, the city council approved a resolution declaring oroville as a non sanctuary city. it allows police officers to cooperate with federal immigration agents. >> our time is now. 545 the latest on the health of pope francis. he

educational institutions. and this all comes on the heels of the u.s. departmentation sending a letter to schools that received federal money, instructing them to stop using race as a factor in admissions in program and other activities. bonta's guidance emphasizes that diverse and inclusive schools are not illegal and that the federal government cannot prohibit these efforts. bonta said, quote, by bringing diverse perspectives to their campuses, schools foster a culture of learning debate and growth that benefits their students for the rest of their lives. every person deserves an equal access to a public education and court. >> billion elon musk met with republicans on capitol hill. they're talking about cuts to the federal government. yeah, we have our washington correspondent vinaysimlot bringing us the very latest. congressional republicans pushed elon musk for more transparency as the department of government efficiency doge and the trump administration try to cut the federal government. musk even went as far as giving some republicans his phone number. maki

this is also a part of what the president is ordering with the department of education sending a memo to the san francisco symphony and the conservatory of music. kron 4 stephanie rothman takes a closer look. >> recent letter from the department of education reinforces the trump administration's executive order eliminating dei programs. this forced the san francisco symphony and conservatory of music to pass the conservatories emerging black composers program. yeah. and sits in a berkeley is the program's 2022. winner. >> hawks. to use the word i would use like it is. incredible to have something. you wrote the play orchestrating the emerging black composers project launched back in 2020. >> with a goal of commissioning 10 works by early career. black american composers over 10 years. now, 5 years in the project has awarded prizes to 7 composers, including it said. >> those commissions, peace drowns in light was performed by the san francisco symphony in 2023 corona. i get a single black composer mentor or look up to. but ali says the program catapulted his career. conservatory studen

also, dismantling the department of education. cnn has learned president trump could keep his promise and sign an order in hours to end the department of ed. there's just one thing standing in trump's way. senate democrats and growing calls among maga pundits to pardon the officer who murdered george floyd. a call now being amplified by elon musk to his 319 million followers on x. what does the floyd family think of all this? we have one of his brothers here live. i'm sarah with john berman and kate baldwin. this is cnn news central. >> so many new and impactful headlines this morning, including cnn is learning that president trump, as soon as today could take executive action to eliminate the department of education. this is something that the president has threatened and promised that he would do. republicans have applauded this effort. democrats have vowed to block it. here is one house democrat that i spoke with just last hour. >> will he do it? sure, he'll do it. will it stick? no. he's so erratic. he's so unreliable. this is

the department of education is not working as intended. e its establishment in 1980, taxpayers have entrusted the department with over $1 trillion. yet student outcomes have consistently languished. secretary mcmahon goes on to say millions of americans are trapped in failing schools with college debt for degrees that do not provide meaningful returns on investment. and all these ideas are now leading to concerns on what this may mean for local school districts and colleges across the country. federal funding comes from the department of education and usually favors low income communities and students with disabilities. there are also questions on how this will affect the future of student loans, as well as education grants. live in the newsroom. i'm james torres, ktvu, fox two news. >> all right, james, thank you. time is 734. san mateo county sheriff christina corpus says she will not resign, despite overwhelming calls for her to be removed from office after voters overwhelmingly passed measure a county officials started planning their ne

of their lives. every person deserves an equal access to public education. just department there launching a civil rights investigation into accusations of anti-semitism within the university of california. this is video of campuses and encampments taking over on sproul plaza. this is that uc berkeley last year protesting the university's investment into companies that worked with israel in an announcement yesterday, the doj suggest there is a potential pattern of discrimination that might create a hostile work environment. just professors, staff and other employees reports of a anti-semitism have gone up across uc campuses since the war in the middle east between hamas and israel. happening today of members of the sonoma state community. they're getting together at mile savile speakers corner it. well, rally against his recent budget cuts, faculty, staff, students and alumni will protest layoffs. 46 faculty and 12 staff along with the elimination academic programs and sports teams. rally organizers say the administration needs to be held accountable. and a man, a reversal

bring the bill to congress if you want to get rid of the department of education. we'll stand on the side of the american people and they'll continue to side on elon musk. reporter: i want to ask about gavin newsom saying the democrats were in the wrong allowing transgender athletes to compete in female sports? what's your response that after democrats opposed women and girls in men's sports. mr. jeffries: i haven't seen his comments but what democrats proposed was unleashing sexual predators on girls throughout the united states of america. last question. reporter: what do you say to those members who have been receiving relentless -- i want to say encouragement, from grassroots activists and constituents who want to see the party do more without obviously necessarily understanding what the power of the minority party is. what's your strategy to show your base that you guys have an effective strategy to counter president trump? mr. jeffries: we'll continue to stop him in the congress, stop him in the courts, stop him in the community, put it in the voteers' hands n

educational institutions. now this comes on the heels of the u.s. department of education sending out a deer college letter, 2 schools receiving federal money. the letter told him to stop using race as a factor in admissions in programs and other activities. so the guidance emphasizes diverse and inclusive schools are not illegal. according to a supreme court decision in 2023 and that the federal government cannot prohibit these efforts through a dcl. bonta said, quote, by bringing diverse perspectives to their campuses. schools foster a culture of learning debate and growth that benefits their students for the rest of their lives. every person deserves equal access to a public education and quote. >> take a look at this. thousands of american alcohol products. >> removed from govern. men operated liquor stores across canada. >> and this is in resdonse to the new tariffs imposed by president trump. the liquor control board of ontario says that they took off the shelves about 3600 u.s. products in more than 1000 stores in canada, kentucky whiskeys california wi

what will we see with this administration in regards to the department of education? erstands the whole thing that randi wiengarten doesn't understand and what she's out there preaching she kept saying in you listen to her, our kids, our kids. they're not your kids, they're our kids. parents should be paramount to this discussion and shouldn't be a department of federal education and let it go right to the states and schools and kids and more school choice. that's why linda mcmahon understands this principal and she'll be a wonderful education secretary and need you to get back to the day where is there is no federal department of education. joey: if the school system is ran effectively, the department of education sends a grant and they implement it and it's the control over the grant and some in california might use for something stupid and one in georgia. as much as i agree with the department of education as it exists needs to go away because that's only a portion of what they do, that grant for the federal government down to the local muay nist 358tys and -- munic

and that's not all from the department of education. that includes other federal departments. that's the total amount. it also manages federal student loan program. people going off to college, that sort of thing. it oversees federal financial aid programs. it is also involved in investigating discrimination complaints. and it conducts research on nationwide reading and math skills. you may recall seeing the national report card every now and then. that explains how kids are doing here, whether they're doing well or not. what it doesn't do is also important. it doesn't set k through 12 curriculum. it doesn't tell schools what to teach. it does not certify teachers, and it does not establish graduation requirements. so if you have complaints about this anywhere you are, that is going to rest largely in your local community and your state, not at the federal government. through all of this, if you want to look at the actual money involved, the k through 12 money, most of it 28 billion goes to title one to help low income students and to the idea program to help students with disa

department of education sent a memo to the san francisco symphony and the san francisco conservatory of music crowd for stephanie rothman has the story. >> recent letter from the department of education reinforces the trump administration's executive order eliminating dei programs. this forced the san francisco symphony and conservatory of music to pass the conservatories emerging black composers program. yeah. and sits in a berkeley is the program's 2022. winner. >> hawks. okay. to use the word use like it is. incredible to have something you wrote the play playing or construct the emerging black composers project launched back in 2020. >> with a goal of commissioning 10 works by early career. black american composers over 10 years. now, 5 years in the project has awarded prizes to 7 composers, including it said. >> those commissioned piece drowns in light was performed by the san francisco symphony in 2023 corona. i get a single black composer mentor or already look up to. but ali says the program catapulted his career. conservatory students depend on federally subsidized loans and

here at the department of education. a momentous final mission, quickly and responsibly. iling schools with college debt for degrees that do not provide meaningful returns on investment, those ideas now leading to concerns of what this means for local school districts and colleges, especially across the country. federal funding comes from the department of education and usually favors low income communities and students with disabilities. there are also questions on how this will affect the future of student loans, as well as grants for education. live in the newsroom. i'm james torres, ktvu, fox two news. >> james saint james. thank you. veterans. they gathered outside the santa rosa, va health center as part of a national day of veterans protest. the white house is ordering the veterans administration to prepare for staffing cuts. the department of government efficiency sent out a memo announcing plans to cut more than 80,000 va jobs. the bay area has more than a dozen va clinics, and some are already seeing layoffs. some veterans feel the white house is breaking a promi

trump says he plans to sign an executive order today to begin the process of dissolving the department of education. the white house says trump will direct department of education secretary linda mcmahon to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure. now, this news comes after previous statements from the president that the department is, quote, indoctrinating young people with inappropriate racial, and political material and quote, now support notes that it it's not legal for the president to shut down a department simply with an executive order. he will have to get permission and approval from congress. but keeping to kron 4 will keep you updated on this breaking news story. and that's not the only one. in fact just in to the kron. 4 news president trump says he is lifting tariffs on most goods from mexico for 4 weeks. and this comes amid economic fears of a trade war with mexico. trump says he's postponing that 25% tariff after a conversation with mexican president claudia sheinbaum. and this would apply to goods that again, she pointed out are compliant with the trade agreement. the tru

president trump has long wanted to get rid of the department of education. he promised as much throughout his first term, and again in this latest campaign. even recently telling his education secretary, linda mcmahon, he wants her to put herself out of a job. mcmahon just this week calling it, a quote, momentous final mission as she looks to send education back to the states. this morning, the president reportedly taking aim at a department that affects schools across the country. "the wall street journal" citing people briefed on the matter reports president trump is expected to issue an executive order as early as today aimed at abolishing the department of education. >> what do these people do? what do they do? >> reporter: nbc now news has not independently confirmed the report. they cannot do that without the approval of congress, but they may look for ways to defund congress. president trump has said, his aim is cutting down inefficiency and waste. the impact on american school children could be far-reaching. the department of education says it serves

it will direct his new education secretary, linda mcmahon, to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the education department. the report says the draft order states, quote, the experiment of controlling american education through federal programs and dollars in the unaccountable bureaucrats. those programs and dollar support has failed our children, our teachers, and our families. now, it is unclear how far this could go. would need senate approval to completely shut down the department. democrats would almost certainly block that. let's get right to kevin liptak at the white house for your new reporting on this. kevin, what have you learned? >> yeah, this is a step that the white house has been preparing for for quite some time. certainly, president trump has been signaling since he was a candidate his intent to close down the department of education. but now we're learning he could put his signature on this executive order as early as today. and what it would do, as you said, essentially direct linda mcmahon, who was just confirmed as the secretary of education earlier this week to begin steps to close th

question though is wasn't there a study done by economists saying that the irs and maybe department of education was one of the best returns on investment and every dollar spent on auditing brought back like $45 or department of education every dollar spent generated three times as much in the future based on what you invested in the people? that's my question to you, thank you. >> yeah, it's a great question. i think the first question to me is shouldn't we cut accounts receivable if it's bloated? the reality is that every person in the irs that's doing these collections earns for the american taxpayer close to $6 of revenue for every $1 we spend on their salary. so it's a good deal. we should be -- if you're trying to be efficient, you'd add more. but the point is well taken that you can save money by sharing irs data to other federal agencies because you cut down on fraud and error if you give the federal agencies more information to detect that fraud and error. yes, from just a quantitative limits. there's the largest error rate and earned income tax credit and program run through the irs an

education secretary linda mcmahon to facilitate a department closure this week. president trump says he wants to give education back to the states. the department ofcation employs more than 4000 people. it's unclear how mcmahon would close the department. congressional approval is required to get rid of a federal agency. 72,000 jobs could be cut under a reorganization of the department of veterans affairs, the va's chief of staff told top level officials that the agency tuesday that it had an objective to cut enough employees to return to 2019 staffing levels of just under 400,000. >> a federal judge blocked the trump administration from drastically cutting medical research funding that many scientists say will endanger patients and cost jobs. the new national institutes of health policy would strip research groups of hundreds of millions of dollars. the money covers so-called indirect expenses of studying alzheimer's, cancer, heart disease and a host of other illnesses. everything from clinical trials of new treatments to basic lab research. that is the foundation for discovery. separate lawsuits filed by a group of 22 states, plus organizations

mmm. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> how soon do you want the department of education to be closed? artment of education is a con job. speak at the department overhaul with executive action that could come today. national data shows severe learning lots across the country but one state is ranked higher than other and that is louisiana up 11 spots on the nation's report card appeared to the superintendent of education joins me now. let's put up on the board to see the improvements made there in louisiana. a lot of states look at this and say, how did you do this? we know why you did it but how did you do with? >> thank you for the question. we are trying to be brave and go back to the basics and redesign systems, value our teachers and expand education. education doesn't have to be complicated and people over complicated it for too long but we are trying to return to basics with the quality education they deserve. speak i think people don't realize how far away so many school districts got from basics like phonics, how you when i learned to read. and we are paying a terrible price for

president trump may sign an order to close the department of education as soon as today. se schedule says he's signing something at 11 a.m. our time. most interpretations of the law say you can't close a department created by congress without congress, and the va plans to cut between 70 and 80,000 workers. va secretary collins says health care for veterans won't be affected. our goal is to reduce va empyment levels to 2019, in strength numbers. roughly 398,000 employees from our current level of approximately 470,000 employees. now, that's a 15% decrease. the u.s. congress trying to get a spending plan together. one big problem is it needs to know how much money doge is saving in order to account for it in the budget. so doge needs to give them solid, provable financial figures. but as many have reported, doge's numbers are inconsistent at best. it's an extremely important part of this is any type of doge cuts. we've got to work into our legislation and work into our budgets and appropriations. and that's a that's a large amount of planning that's happening. sierra zero ei

this this draft executive order directs mcmahon to facilitate the closure of the education departmentwhile operating to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law. what does that mean? how would that work? what would be left in place there's a lot of. >> gobbledygook there. um, as you said very accurately. >> to. >> close the department of education, it would take. 60 votes in the senate. that is never going to happen. and so it's sort of a bunch of rhetoric. it's gaslighting. um, they are not going to close the department of education. they could dismantle it. they could do harm. they could do damage. they had an executive order ready to go today. they walked that back because it's so unpopular, just like he walked. >> back the tariffs today. >> two thirds of americans don't want the department of education to close. so i'm not quite sure what his next move is. he's a he's a master of chaos. >> public schools only receive about 14% of their budgets from the federal government. i wonder how they would be impacted and what it would mean for students if education were handled e

of education. what does the department mean for public schools around our country? >> well, look, the history of the department is about civil rights and ensuring that all students have access to educational opportunity. when you think about the department, you think about the title one program that sends more than $18 billion to schools serving low income students, you think about the individuals with disabilities education act, which allows the department to send about $14 billion to schools to provide services to students with disabilities. you think about the pell grant program, which provides assistance to low income students to pursue higher education, to pursue their american dream. that's what's at stake. if we were to see a dismantling of the department, you fear for those programs and the crucial role they play in students lives. >> yeah. and i'm just wondering, john, previous to president carter, this department didn't exist. and, you know, aaron was telling us how small as far as workforce it is vis a vis all the other departments. and certainly as a cabi

department of education force, the san francisco symphony end the san francisco conservatory of music to pause their emerging black composers project kron 4.70, rothman joins us in studio now with reaction. stephanie. >> dan, one of the program's recipients explains without this investment. he fears there will be a lack of representation in classical music, especially when it comes to young black talent. that's already so limited. >> a recent letter from the department of education reinforces the trump administration's executive order eliminating dei programs. this forced the san francisco symphony and conservatory of music to pass the conservatories emerging black composers program. yeah. and sits in a berkeley is the program's 2022. winner. >> hawks. use the word i would use like it is. incredible to have something. you wrote the play playing custer, the emerging black composers project launched back in 2020. >> with a goal of commissioning 10 works by early career. black american composers over 10 years. now, 5 years in the project has awarded prizes to 7 composers, including it sa

. >> when the department of education grant she was hired. >> under was terminated. >> department of education cuts the potential elimination of the department of education is one of sort of two. >> categories of actions. >> the trump administration and republicans in washington are taking. >> that have potentially. >> catastrophic effects, not just on the people who's. >> who are served. >> by those agencies. >> or the people who work there. >> but also on the states. >> if the federal education department disappears, which. nbc news reports is their plan to just. eliminate that department and everything it does if they kill the federal education department, and if they go ahead with these massive. >> medicaid cuts. >> that are headed in the budget that republicans have just started to pass in washington, both of those things are going to just be. >> nuclear bombs. >> on the state budgets of just about. >> every. >> state in the country. those folks in michigan on tuesday, including the woman who's just lost her job because of department of education cuts, they were protesting, among

department of education. he legally just dismantle the department of education by executive order, or does he need congressional action? >> well, ultimately, if you eliminate an agency, you need congressional action. but just the fact that this is what he's doing shows his disdain for the american people, shows his disdain for public education, shows his disdain for special programs that are essential for so many americans to use and learn. for title one, which provides extra funding for disadvantaged neighborhoods, this is just more and more of donald trump's effort to completely slash and burn the american government and cut costs that go to cut programs, really, and funding that goes to the vast majority of working americans so that he can pave the way for tax cuts for billionaires. that is all that he's doing with these cuts. and it is going to really, really harm the vast majority of american people. >> one final question before i let you go, congressman, what about the pushback that elon musk seems to be

stuart: another proposed change, trump issues an executive order to abolish the department of educationlast month he said he wants the states to run the schools. >> why nominate linda mcmahon if you are going to get rid of the department of education? >> i told them linda, i hope you do a great job and put your self out of a job, ranked 40 out of 40 schools, we are ranked number one -- we spend more on people than any other country in the world and we are ranked at the bottom of the list, ranked very badly and what i want to do is let the states run schools. stuart: makes a good case, to abolish the department of education you need legislation for that. brian: to totally abolish it union legislation but you can do a lot to take power away from that department had to give it to parents. if you are paying a tutor every year and your kids's test scores got worse, wouldn't you fight the tutor? you would fire the tutor, it is a tutor the doesn't teach kids, spend time on other things. a lot of money, a small department gets paid a lot of money, american parents would rather have that money,

the department of education in the crosshairs is president donald trump is reportedly ready to sign an executive order to dismantle the department. straight ahead. i speak with an education leader about the severe impact this would have on those seeking higher education. first flight. frightening moments for commuters after an apparent gun battle on the east bay highway. what investigators are saying following three freeway shootings in just more than a week. but first, calling all young artists. we're talking about painters, writers, storytellers, axes. growing up in america. art bay fc and video contest is back. it's celebrating 30 years. this year's theme is facing my fears, and it's challenging. students k through 12 across the bay area to reflect on how they manage fear and turn it into strength. whether it's through painting, personal essay or video. this is your chance to win some cash prizes. nbc bay area is proud to support this opportunity. the submission window is open until march 15th. head tour website o (vo) struggling with moderate to severe crohn's disease or ulcerative

the dismantling of agencies, including today the department of education, the firing of teachers, veterans, military, hack your personal data -- hacking your personal data, cozying up to foreign adversaries, this is not normal. we must continue to fight back, to push back in congress and the courts and in our communities. so here is what you can do. raise your voice, push your members of congress, push the administration, push your state and local leaders, engage in collective action, and engage in everyday acts of resistance in your own life. because, america, this is not normal. we will not go back. so i say to you, stay strong. raise your voices and engage in acts of courage. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. members are reminded to address their remarks to the chair. all right. under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2025, the gentleman from arizona, mr. schweikert, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. schweikert: thank you, mr. speaker pro tempore. all righty. you have ever had the time here -- have you ever had the time h

of parents to direct their children's education. that's according to acting assistant secretary for civil rights greg trainor. he went on t say the department adheres to the deeply rooted american principle that local control over public education best allows parents and teachers alike to assess the educational needs of their children and communities that move earned immediate pushback from the american libraes association, quote, in their cruel and headlong effort to terminate protectis from discrimination for lgbtq a-plus students and studen of color. the department of education advances the demonstrably false claim that book bans are not real. that was a statement from the library association. the free speech group pan america also denounced the move by the education department. pen america has tracked some 10,000 book bans in the 2023 2024 school year. the three books that were banned the most last year, according to pen america's database, include the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky lookingor alaska by john green and 19 minutes by jodi picou. in other news, simon and schuster said it will publish a posthumous book by pul

education department employs more than 4000 people. the president has said he wants to give education back to the states. elsewhere, the department of planning to lay off nearly 72,000 workers, which is 15% of its workforce. >> now, we regret anyone who loses their job, and it's extraordinarily difficult for me, especially as a va leader and your secretary, to make these types of decisions. but the federal government does not exist to employ people. it exists to serve people. >> senator jerry moran, who heads the senate veterans affairs committee, slammed the layoffs, writing, the va needs reform, but they must be done. but that must be done in a responsible way. >> the producers of the hit broadway musical hamilton have canceled next year's run of the show at the kennedy center in washington, d.c. they are blaming president trump's recent takeover of the performing arts venue. lead producer jeffrey seller says the changes made recently, including firing professional staff and canceling several shows, has ended the center's spirit of nonpartisanship. he also cited concerns that their contract could be canceled or changed. suddenly,

morning, president donald trump will reportedly soon issue an executive order to abolish the department of education. wall street journal is reporting that may happen as soon as today. his education secretary, linda mcmahon, was confirmed by the senate monday. now, this all comes as the white house head of the department of government efficiency, elon musk, met with republicans in congress today in the bay's alice barr joining us live this morning from washington. and alice, members of the gop are facing what we're seeing, a growing number of number of angry voters out there as the white house is seeking to shrink the federal government. yeah, marcus, a lot of us have probably seen those scenes from town halls all across the country of people voicing frustration over lost jobs or worries about benefits. elon musk now sitting down with both senate and house republicans to address concerns. and we're making good progress. president trump's top adviser, elon musk, meeting with republican lawmakers w wednesday night, seeking to reassure as elected officials in both parties hear from constituents angered

another agency, the department of education. they sent out an email to their employees, which we were able to see, and it admitted the shortcomings in being able to provide for many of these remote offices. so very clear. a lot more work has to be done to allow workers to do their jobs. >> certainly. sunlen, thank you so much. boris. >> cnn has learned that during the trump administration's purge of foreign assistance funding, it also eliminated specific programs that were supposed to be spared by the state department because the administration said they were life saving programs that provided clean water and shelter, and treated babies and kids with infectious diseases and hiv and aids. cnn's state department reporter jennifer hansler joins us now. live with more. jennifer. which program specifically were impacted and how did this happen? >> well, boris, last week, the trump administration began rolling out termination notices for nearly 10,000 foreign assistance awards at the state department and usaid. the trump administration

department of education force, the san francisco symphony end the san francisco conservatory of musiceir emerging black composers project kron four's. stephanie rothman joins us live in studio now with reaction. stephanie. >> one of the program's recipients explains without the investment. he fears there will be a lack of representation in classical music, especially when young black talon is already so limited. >> a recent letter from the department of education reinforces the trump administration's executive order eliminating dei programs. this forced the san francisco symphony and conservatory of music to pass the conservatories emerging black composers program. yeah. and sits in a berkeley is the program's 2022. winner. >> hawks. okay. to use the word use like it is. incredible to have something you wrote the play playing the emerging black composers project launched back in 2020. >> with a goal of commissioning 10 works by early career. black american composers over 10 years. now, 5 years in the project has awarded prizes to 7 composers, including it said. >> those commissioned p

that trump will ask newly sworn in education secretary linda mcmahon to body slam the agency take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the education departmentximum extent appropriate and permitted by law. maybe that's more of your question, brian. mcmahon was sworn into trump's cabinet on monday. that's when she offered her support for new phase in american education saying, quote: the american people and the president tasked us with the accomplishing the elimination of bureaucratic bloat here at the department of education. a momentous quickly and responsibly. fully eliminating the department will require congress to take action. it has been in the works since early in trump's transition. tomorrow morning checking in with the education secretary with linda mcmahon joins "fox & friends," lawrence? >> lawrence: thanks, lucas. appreciate it. and this morning we have our first look at the terrorists for the abbey gate bombing took the live of 13 service members in kabul. president trump announcing the arrest in his speech on tuesday. >> three and a half years ago isis terrorists killed 13 american service members and countless others in the ab

department of government efficiency. they are trying to shut down the department of education. the department of labor. do you know what elon musk does not seem to be looking into? his own contracts. do you know how much money a day mr. musk will receive from the federal government? >> no. >> the answer is $8 million a day. just last year he was promised $3 billion. do you know how much the average person in this country who survives on social security, a senior who has worked their entire life, has to survive on? $65 a day. this subcommittee, chaired by marjorie taylor greene, is looking into your grandmother's $65 a day. i think we would all support taxpayer savings. look into money we might needlessly send to billionaires and big corporations. find taxpayer savings and send it back to your hard-working families. but what this administration wants to do is look into your kids lunch money. your kids teachers salary. your grandparents social security. they want to take that money and give it out in billionaire tax cuts and they are talking about that a committee tomorrow. they just released their plan.

you look at all the agencies that have had cuts, the department of education, department of energy, national institutes of health, it's hard to not see it as a broader attack on expertise and specifically, scientific expertise which is a dangerous and short-sighted road to go down and in this specific case, guess which agency houses the united states response to the climate crisis. it's noaa. this is going to be part of an effort to cripple those responses which is something that -- it's the opposite direction we should be going in. >> paul, thank you. >>> first alert weather powered by kia. learn more at kia.com. kia, movement that inspires. >> now that we've got the housekeeping out of the way, let's talk about our weather. >> things will change for the weekend, the warm weather ending and now a typical unsettled late winter pattern. this is the simulation over the next two weeks, some long range data. it those a progression of storm systems sending mostly light to moderate rain into the bay area and the timing is going to be about every two or three days, sometimes spaced out longer. even

you look at all the agencies that have had cuts, the department of education, department of energy, nationalhealth, it's hard to not see it as a broader attack on expertise and specifically, scientific expertise which is a dangerous and short-sighted road to go down and in this specific case, guess which agency houses the united states response to the climate crisis. it's noaa. this is going to be part of an effort to cripple those responses which is something that -- it's the opposite direction we should be going in. >> paul, thank you. >>> first alert weather powered by kia. learn more at kia.com. kia, movement that inspires. >> now that we've got the housekeeping out of the way, let's talk about our weather. >> things will change for the weekend, the warm weather ending and now a typical unsettled late winter pattern. this is the simulation over the next two weeks, some long range data. it those a progression of storm systems sending mostly light to moderate rain into the bay area and the timing is going to be about every two or three days, sometimes spaced out longer. eventually we're li

they lied on us when we were over at the department of education.y said, that is what trump said. he said we were breaking it. we are not breaking in nowhere. we are using our power. we are using our collective power. we are standing up, we are speaking out and this is our country and we will not let elon musk have it. he cannot have it. come here and face us. come on over here and face us so you can hear from us. you can see yes, you can look us in the eye. are we going to fight? are we going to win? is this our country? are we going to let it be sold? are we going to tell trump to get out of the way take your thieving elon musk with you. thank you very much. >> representative nancy waters, everybody. and credible. what do we want to see from our fighters? we have frank from new jersey. representative, are you willing to withhold your boat until this constitutional crisis is over? >> i am absolutely withholding my vote. we just want to thank you. we have a lot of democratic members of congress here from all over the country. we just want to thank y

the order does instruct her, though, to do as much as she can by law, stating the department of education's main functions can and should be returned to the states. most funding for public schools already is at the state and local level, but the department does oversee billions of dollars in funding to help low income students and students with disabilities, and enforces civil rights laws to prevent discrimination in schools, manages about $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, and it also oversees the process for students applying for college financial aid through pell grants and fafsa, which for many students is the only way that they get help paying for college. about 17 million students every single year apply for financial aid through fafsa. the question now is how much of that could be directed or moved to be under different agencies, and is there support in congress to eliminate the department of education altogether? robin. >> still, so much uncertainty there. all right, rachel, thank you. now to the measles outbreak spreading to another state. a high schooler in florida has now been d