lisa desjardins has our report. >> i appreciate you. l interview for a job the president suggested she should work herself out of. >> the legacy of our nation's leadership in education is one that every person in this room in braces with pride. unfortunately many americans today are experiencing a system in decline. lisa: democrats presented a united front against the nominee for secretary of education. >> will you oppose any cuts to public education, yes or no? >> well, the president does not say that we should cut funding to public education. >> yes he is. yes he is. he and elon musk announced he would immediately cut $900 million from the department of education. lisa: mcmahon said she had not talked with mosque about the agency at all. yesterday the president made his position clear. >> i wanted to be closed immediately. the department education is a con job. lisa: mcmahon walked a finer line. >> it is not the president's goal to defund the programs. lisa: aiming to reassure senators. >> if there is a movement to abolish the departme

amna: lisa desjardins, thank you very much. lisa: you are welcome.president trump handed more power over to elon musk yesterday, giving the billionaire and his team oversight over hiring decisions across every government agency. geoff: and as his power grows, he continues to post sleeting or false accusations against government agencies to his more than 200 million followers on his social media platforms, x. during an appearance in the oval office, he was asked about his false claim that usaid planned to allot $50 million for condoms in gaza before his team stopped it. musk said this. >> first of all, some of the things i say will be incorrect and should be corrected. nobody is going to bet 1000. geoff: hours later, he continued to amplify the same debunked claim. president trump has -- three weeks into this administration, president trump has given musk enormous power over government agencies that the billionaire's companies do business with. our white house correspondent laura barron-lopez joins is here -- is here with a closer look at the intersec

correspondent lisa desjardins is here with the latest. good to see you, lisa. a quick reminder -- why does all this matter? >> what republicans do or don't do will affect nearly every american taxpayer. it will also determine for potentially a decade who the winners or losers are in this economy. what about the poor, and it will also tell us is congress ever going to be serious about bringing down the deficit? all of that is at stake here. >> now to the proposal. walk us through. there has been a lot of debate. what exactly are house republicans proposing? >> i will put on my glasses but first of all i want to say this has not been easy but republicans finally cobbled this together today. it is a sweeping plan. this is what they say they want to do as they're out my pick for tax cuts ,$4.5 trillion over 10 years, spending cuts, between 1.5 and $2 trillion four trillion. $300 billion four i.c.e. and it would increase the deficit of $3 trillion. republicans, dispute that because they say the economy will make up for that. we're going to get into that context as w

lisa desjardins has been investigating what has happened and joins us to share what she has found. is being affected? >> news hour has been doing three days of reporting to figure out what is happening. one area, head start programs around the country, and community health care centers. both are funded in large part by the department of health and human services. there have been funding problems in the last week and day. head start programs have felt these funding freezes. many still feeling it. 20,000 kids and families the affected program. community health centers in nine states over the past few days have been blocked from accessing and getting funding. some programs are focused on early learning and families. some spent all of this money and they need to recoup it as part of the program. in washington state, head start programs have had these blocks, they call them rolling blackouts. >> it created an incredible amount of chaos across our community. a lot of programs, even until yesterday, were worried about paying rent, paying staff. at the end of the day, when impacts are the

lisa desjardins has our report. man: ms. mcmahon, i appreciate you coming. nda mcmahon, a capitol hill interview for a job the president suggested she should work herself out of. linda mcmahon, u.s. education secretary nominee: the legacy of our nation's leadership in education is one that every person in this room embraces with pride. unfortunately, many americans today are experiencing a system in decline. lisa: democrats presented a united front against the nominee for secretary of education. sen. sen. markey: will you oppose any cuts to public education, yes or no? linda mcmahon: well, the president is not -- he is not saying that we should cut funding to public education. sen. markey: yes, he is. linda mcmahon: he is simply saying -- well, i would disagree with you there. sen. markey: elon musk yesterday announced he would immediately cut $900 million from the department of education. lisa: mcmahon said she has not talked with musk about the agency at all. yesterday, the president made his position clear. pres. trump: oh, i'd like it to be closed immedia

our congressional correspondent lisa desjardins is following the cabinet confirmation process and joins lisa, let's start with hhs first, since it is one of the largest federal agencies. what is the committee's vote mean? lisa: unless something changes, rfk junior will become the next hhs secretary. there are enough votes on the floor for him. he is a 71-year-old, of course, who does not have a history or expertise in health care. he spent years researching and writing about health care. he does deserve credit for changing the conversation about processed foods, and that is what we heard during his senate confirmation hearing, but at the same time, there are open doubts about his views and passed statements about vaccines, studies have shown there is no link between autism and vaccines, and that raised real concerns about him. you can hear are very sharply different views of him in committee today. sen. tillis: i, for one, think that it is time to put a disrupter in. it is time to put somebody in there that's going to go wild. but there are areas where i think that's exactly what we nee

lisa desjardins begins our coverage.dent: standing next to the prime minister of japan, a question about how president trump used his power. he was as will he fire every fbi agent to investigated the january 6 the salt? pres. trump: no, but i will fire some of them. correspondent: he clarified he wanted to fire corrupt agents and that could be those involved in january 6 as fbi agent's involved saw a win. the department of justice agreed not to release the list of agents who worked on the case without two days notice. a court case around the list will continue in the meanwhile. that is coming is mr. trump welcomed japanese prime minister ishiba. a world to discuss, north korea, china, tariffs, and the future of u.s. seal -- steel. u.s. steel has struggled as of late. japan's nippon steel wanted to buy it. trump has agreed no sale but today in promised an investment deal is to come. pres. trump: we are doing it as an investment purchase. correspondent: as he extends ahead to some, trump and efficiency czar elon musk are w