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

candice: we reached out to the us department of education. a spokesperson said, "funding is set by congress." with the finger pointing, budget shortfalls, and a silence from some local leaders, these students say they're paying the price. for months they voiced their concerns at board meetings. leah: we should not be at 3rd grade level at high school. ibrahim: i am stressed about my future and depressed. candice: leah and mina are now in private college. for the first time, they say, they're learning what they should have learned in high school. leah: i thought i can't do it until i enter college. i'm able to learn math and english, and that is special. candice: but they worry about their classmates, who they grew up with, who aren't going to college. mina poritz: we had to fight this because we knew this is not right. candice: at a board meeting last week, ibrahim and rodi said their cases with the county office of education are moving forward. they are hopeful under the interim superintendent they'll reach a resolution. their fight isn't ov

if you look at the department of education, it seems like so many buildings. i, i right by us department of education. they're all over the place, and we don't even want it. we want the education to be given by the states that will be much better. it'll be, it'll move us to the top of the list from the bottom of the list and actually save as much. but not as too important, even talk about them. it will save us a lot of money. but we don't want that. we want a education to be given. so you go to iowa and indiana, idaho. and all these places are so well run. they're going to be producing education that will be the equivalent of like denmark is one in norway, sweden, actually china is one of the better in terms of education. and so we can't blame size anymore. you know, china is 1400000 people, but they're very high and that is the one thing we're doing well. we're number one on the list is cost per pupil. we spend more money than any other country in the world by far. so i jokingly say one thing we do well, honors the costs, we spend more money and yet we're for the bottom of th

of workers and what might be effectively the biggest job cutting us history. mm hm. and i don't know they're setting sites on the us department of education. but again, think like an employer for a minute, even if it doesn't come to you naturally, if it doesn't come to mean that for lead, for an employer. this is near vonda because he's not gonna have to tax that look, he has to deliver that to them. how is she gonna do it? he could borrow the money. that's what his predecessors did. but we are now a little level of debt. this country has never seen. it's becoming scary problem, because if the rest of the world mo, long go lenders to the united states government, the coverage deference, it's, what are we going to do? let's remember that for many, many people you get paid less if you work for the government and if you go in the private sector and the compensation for that was job security. what mr. trump, mr. musk are doing more than what the workers are that they fire is they've taken that security away. where do you think public employees are going to go? if either they've lost their job, which is happening to tens of thousands, or they'r

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 ability to handpick students and close their doors to everybody else. we've alrea

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 ability to handpick students and close their doors to everybody else. we've alrea

and of course, the president can use the department of education for his or her bully pulpit. but what this really is about is returning to states rights. and why is that critical? because particularly after brown versus board of ed and during the civil rights era, you had a lot of southern states use the issue of states rights to create segregation academies to keep african american students from going to school with white students. so there were ways to privatize, even within the public school system, schools and districts, so that you could you could keep integration from actually taking place. and if you remember, during the 2020 debate, kamala harris and joe biden actually got into a little tiff around the federal role of education. >> and busing. >> and busing. and kamala harris was saying the federal government needed to step in. joe biden kept saying, well, it was a states rights issue. but both are correct in the sense that when states weren't following the federal mandate, individuals families would have to go back to the federal government and the courts to get them

we're anticipating president trump is going to sign an executive order to dismantle the department of education. tell us how is there going to be a pushback against that and what's your reaction to it? mr. jeffries: glad you asked that question because this is another example. why do they want to issue this executive order right now that they know does not have the force of law? because they want to distract and disorient people. coming off a state of the union or joint address to congress where he spoke for 100 minutes. it was tough. sitting there and listening to it all. but he spent less than two minutes on the economy, when people are struggling to live paycheck to paycheck in america, the wealthiest country in the history of the world. two minutes or less on the economy because he has nothing to say. costs aren't going up, they're going down. he didn't say a word about medicaid. and donald trump set the table for eradicate social security benefits. there is no situation where people who are 100, 200 years old, 300 years old. receiving social security benefits. prove that? everyone knows he lied. on

of course, students at our colleges and universities who receive pell grants and other funding sources through the federal government. and so it's really important to us that the department of education stay in place and continue to be that that watchdog, if you will, for so many students who often are at risk. >> could that authority be subsumed by some other entity when you're talking about laws protecting students with disabilities? you know, that predates the department of education. so what are your concerns there? >> look, again, we're talking about nationwide 26 million students who live in poverty benefit from the u.s. department of education. they're enforcing those education laws that ensure the individuals with individuals with disabilities in education act, you know, making sure that those students are getting the support they need. and that is a function of the department of education, and i think an important one. and so losing that function would be a problem. losing the 7.8 million students who are students with special needs, the 26 million students in poverty. i think we really want to make sure that those kids are looked out for, and we need the department of educa

department of education. well, this now is arne duncan, former education secretary during the obama administration. secretary, thank you so much for being with us, dismantling the department of education. what does that even mean, do you think? and who would be most affected? >> well. >> it's hard to tell. >> and, you know. >> he had. >> an executive order that he was supposed to sign today on that. he probably saw the polls that two thirds of americans are against it. so he backed off. he saw the polls, two thirds of people against tariffs. so he backed off. and folks like trump are sort of cowards at heart. and so it's hard to tell what will happen if they just simply move parts of the department of education to other agencies, to treasury, to hhs, to labor, whatever we just have is a bureaucratic nightmare. and, you know, when you walk into a store, they say, you know, you break it, you own it. if things start to fall apart in d.c. because they have moved things around, they are going to own it. and that's something they're not going to want to see happen. if they start to take away educational opportunity from vulnerable children. >> one of

suggested that what he is actively seeking to do is shut down parts of the federal government, from us aid to the department of educationhas been a lack of concern on the part of this administration about key components and infrastructure of the us government coming to a close. and i think that that is where these conversations about the march 15th deadline are going to ever increase here over the next seven days. of course, on the house side, republicans can't afford to lose more than one of their members on a potential deal to continue to fund the government here. and of course, this is all separate from the larger budget conversation and reconciliation package. deal of that will include, ultimately, the extension of the 2017 tax cuts, as well as immigration and energy spending here. so there is a lot on the plate at a time in which there is a great focus on not only the immediate impact of these tariffs on the economy, the stock market, doj's efforts to cut there's basic government spending that is going to be have to be accounted for over here in the course of the next week, let alone the major financial package tha

of a job. >> education secretary linda mcmahon joins us now. good morning to you thanks for coming on. >> good morning, ainsley. >> ainsley: we heard he could be executive order to abolish the departmentat coming today? >> i don't know. i don't want to get ahead of the president. i think you would have to check with the white house. i think he certainly intends to sign the order and we have talked about it. he has made it crystal clear since the time he was running for president that this is his intent. his intent to to provide quality education through school choice to all students. and he wants to make sure that education is back at the state level where it belongs. that our local school boards that governors and teachers and parents are really the ones that are involved mostly in the children's education. >> ainsley: what exactly would school choice look like? would he give x amount of dollars spent on students back to the parents. they could choose private schools or any school in the surrounding area or in their county or state? what would it look like? >> there are various programs that we would look like, scholarship programs, we could use voucher systems to go to different sch

department of education, as i understand it, serves a very broad purpose, not only k-12 education, but also higher education and student loans and student loan programs. so, you know, for us in the k-12 space, the programing that the department of education oversees includes funding for title one programs, which support children and families who live below the poverty line for they support title two, which are funds that are designed to increase the educator pipeline and provide teachers and principals with the necessary professional development they need. title three serves children who are coming from,. they speak a language other than english and learning english. title four has a whole host of programs, many of whom involve community community school programs as well as innovation and technology. and then the one that a lot of people know is ida or special education funding. that funding supports children with disabilities. so, you know, these are large sums of money that go out to every single school. and those particular groups of students that need those additional funds to help them, you know, level the playing field and to get ahead and benefit from their educati

department of education. a draft of the order instructs the new education secretary to take all steps necessary to break down the department. ktvu james torres joins uss. >> and good morning to you, pam. well, the department of education was established by congress back in the 70s, so getting rid of it would require congressional approval. and at this time, it's not clear if the president has the votes to make that happen. however, he can navigate around that and try to break down the department. the senate just confirmed linda mcmahon as the education secretary. she's a former wwe ceo. she published a, quote, final mission memo to the employees of the department of education. news outlets are also getting a copy of a draft of an executive order directing mcmahon to work on dismantling the department. that's long been a campaign promise of president trump. the new education secretary says the department is a waste of money, and getting rid of it gets rid of, quote, bureaucratic bloat. >> to invest in american students who want to become tech pioneers, we should encourage innovative new institutions, develop smart accountability systems, and tear down

of the department. mcmahon told staff at the department of education in an email earlier in the week that donald trump and the american voters had, quote, tasked uson of the bureaucratic bloat here at the education department. a momentous final mission quickly and responsibly. now, only congress has the authority to kill a cabinet level department, the federal government, and it would need 60 votes in the senate. but it's clear that the department responsible for distributing money to students with any sort of learning difference or disability, administering student loans is right now, because of donald trump on life support, with its entire workforce, knowing that their bosses at the department and in the oval office are looking to eliminate the department and put all of them out of work. joining our conversation is randi weingarten. she's the president of the american federation of teachers. let me just i think because if you're a parent of kids, what you touch is your your kid's school and your kid's teachers. but let me let me just put some information out there. public schools in the country educate almost 8 million students with disabilitie

have a proper basis of education, and they want to make sure that the disadvantaged stay disadvantaged. which is why what you said is important for us to reiterate here to the departmentation does not control the curriculum of your kids school. >> no, in fact. >> it's local. it's local and state. >> in fact, again, some facts. >> yes. >> in the in 2015, right before donald trump became president, the first time there was a bipartisan coalition that got the education, the elementary and secondary act changed. so the department of education controls virtually nothing. it basically your local school board and the state education department of your state control everything from curriculum to graduation requirements. the department is an is a supplement. it helps deal with opportunity to help level things up. >> so let's also stay on the facts. trump can't just do this. linda mcmahon cannot just get rid of the doe. it takes congress to be able to approve this measure. what is the aft doing right now to try to protect against those types of moves? >> so, you know, we have congress is going to be, excuse me, going to be extraordinarily important on any number of issues in th

use it ourselves. and $101000000.00 where the contracts at the department of education the most ever paid, nothing even like it under the trump administration. all of these scams. and there are far worse, but i didn't think it was appropriate to talk about the special bed as many more have been found out and exposed and swiftly terminated by a group of very intelligent mostly young people headed up by the line. and we appreciate it. we found hundreds of billions of dollars for the reduced to flight inflation and other things. take it back. a lot of that money. we got a just and this is just the beginning. the government accountability office and federal government office has estimated annual fraud of over $500000000000.00 in our nation. and we are working very hard to stop it. we're going to we're also identifying shockey levels of incompetence and probable fraud and the social security program for our seniors that are seniors and people that we love rely on believe it or not, government databases list 4700000 social security members from people age 100 to 109 years old. people is 3600000 people from a

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use it ourselves. a $101000000.00 where the contracts at the department of education a most ever paid. nothing even like it under the trump administration, all of these scams and there are far worse, but i didn't think it was appropriate to talk about them. that's so bad. as many more have been found out and exposed and swiftly terminated by a group of very intelligent, mostly young people headed up by the line. and we appreciate it. we found hundreds of billions of dollars of for the we've taken back the money and reduce the debt to fight inflation and other things . take it back. a lot of the money we got to just into this is just the beginning. the government accountability office and federal government office has estimated annual fraud of over $500000000000.00 in our nation. and we are working very hard to stop and we're going to we're also identifying shockey levels of incompetence and probable fraud and the social security program for our seniors. and that are seniors and people that we love rely on believe it or not, government databases list 4700000 social security members from

us a better, stronger america. what is happening at the department of education is what is happening at the consumer protection bureau and the mother of all fights and that is what is happening in the tax fight. they are iterations. what is your vision of america. republicans say let those at the top have even more and make everything else pay for it. democrats are saying nope, have them pay their fair share so everybody in the united states has a fighting chance and build economic security. >> you mentioned other actions that they are taking unilaterally dismantling agencies. i feel like this is probably the biggest fight. can you vote for a government funding bill right now? >> we started voting on this. we are talking about the tax parts. it starts with a whole series of votes and the republicans have put in votes to lay out the budget they want to put us into. those of you in other words in the -- ner dmp s. you have to do a package and unlike where most of the time, if you are in the minority you can get your amendments in. we tend to go late in the night. at 3:50 in the morning on the vote, we had about two wee

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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 useeorgia. 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 -- municipalities and teaching the kids and stepping up and controlling and mandating something better. lisa: great discussion, guys. gen z ditching toxic feminism, that's next. ♪ ♪ enjoy your risk-free trial. ♪ hello, can you hear me? — i sure can! ♪ did you hear about our state-certified hearing care professionals? our experts take the time to get to know you and your hearing needs. ♪ call 1-800-9773322 now. everybody hear me? i sure can! ♪ did you hear about our smallest and rechargeable hearing aids? ♪ they're nearly invisible and comfortable to wear. try risk free, call 1-800-9773322. — can you hear me? — i sure can! ♪ so, can you hear well? i sure can! did you hear about our lifetime of aftercare? every hearing aid comes with a lifetime of free checkups, free cleanings,

leader at the department of education that actually believes in the mission of the department of education. we need a secretary of education with a really deep understanding of how to uses crucial position to strengthen educational opportunities and outcomes for every student in this country. we need a secretary of education who will put students first, not billionaires, who will stand up for our kids, every single one of them, even if it means standing up to donald trump and e elon musk. and, mr. president, on every single one of these counts, linda mcmap fails to make the great. i'm sorry to say my concerns have not been alleviated. far from it. i asked her in our confirmation hearing about the every student succeeds act. that is the law i negotiated with republicans to finally fix the no child left behind and provide more flexibility tower states and -- to our states and schools while ensuring flect for our tax dollars. she couldn't name a single requirement of that law. not one. how is she supposed to enforce our education laws when she didn't even bother to study up before her confirmation hearing? i'm fighting for public schools. it is painfully clear that mcmaho

education department. a draft of the order instructs the new education secretary to take all steps necessary to break it down. >> ktvu james torres joins usy that issue could become complicated. >> james contra costa will. the department of education was established by congress, so getting rid of it would require congressional approval. and it's not clear if president trump has the votes to make that happen. however, he can navigate around that to try to break the department down. and leading the charge is newly confirmed secretary linda mcmahon. she's a former wwe ceo. she published a final mission memo to the employees of the department of education, saying the mission will line up with trump's vision. news outlets are also getting a copy of a draft of the executive order prepared to be signed today, directing mcmahon to work on dismantling the department. that's long been a campaign promise of president trump. however, a political science expert i spoke to says while we can expect some changes, an entire elimination is unlikely. >> it will be looked at in congress. secretary mcmahon will be able to do some things on the margins, but at

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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 useh 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 -- municipalities and teaching the kids and stepping up and controlling and mandating something better. lisa: great discussion, guys. gen z ditching toxic feminism, that's next. ♪ ♪ oooh! beak's up! [gasp] we're trapped by dishes. don't worry. they've got new dawn powersuds. it'll power through this whole pile with ease. yeah, it's the dish soap with two times more powerful suds. (giggles) lucky ducks! dawn's first suds that trap, lock and remove 99% of grease. so it doesn't get passed from dish... to dish. cleaned and stacked. like ducks in a row. heh. good one. new dawn powersuds. the better grease getter. and my progressive rep was super helpful. tom hayes is passive progressive. the way kevin says he always has to help you. tom doesn't have progressive, so he takes it out on those who

department of education has four main functions. it distributes funds that support schools and colleges across the united states. it regulates the useeral civil rights laws in the context of education, and it oversees research for how to improve school operations and outcomes. for example, the department of education enforces the individuals with disabilities education act, or idea, which gives millions of kids with learning differences and disabilities a federal right to access equitable education that meets their needs. likewise, the department enforces title one of the civil rights act, which authorizes programs that help nearly 30 million children in low income communities. under that law, the department of education disperses funds that allow schools with high rates of poverty to hire and train teachers, buy school supplies, and run after school programs, among other things. the department controls billions of dollars of federal funds that help low income families and school districts, as well as students with disabilities. the doe also controls funding that determines whether a school can hire teachers and other learning servi

there are ten, 20, 30, 50 of us in congress who don't want to see the department of education blown up, but we don't want to see usaid go away because of its you know, that's part of our soft power. no, mr. president, what happens? you're going to be shocked. but they are saying different. >> things in front of the cameras. >> they're saying. >> just behind closed doors. you know, what. >> i hear often from republicans is they're hopeful. >> that they won't. >> have to stand up to him because they're scared. >> of what they. think that like, let. >> the courts handle it, right. >> they think that the courts will shake things out. >> the things that. >> he really wants, that they even they see as unconstitutional. these republicans, they're like, you know, the courts will. handle that. we won't have to. >> worry about it because they're worried about their families. >> they're worried about the people that work for them. >> because it's not just. >> you know, donald trump. >> is going to send a. >> mean truth social. >> post about you, right? it is that you're going. >> to start getting

tell us why you support donald trump dismantling the department of education and what it would mean forna but each state individually? >> i'm telling you our states are ready to i can at that time ball and run with it. especially here in south carolina and in states all across the south and the country. we have state chiefs just like me who are focused on the fundamentals. we know we have to use the science of reading and phonics to make sure our kids can read. we have to focus on basic math and we have to teach civics that engages our students in our shared american story and teaches them to love our country and to appreciate the many wonderful blessings of living here. and so, because of that, we have been hamstrung by overreach and red tape in washington just about box checking and compliance. give us the flexibility. send those federal funds back to the united states and let us determine how we can best spend them to support students here. >> ainsley: ellen, you told me you have a coalition of state superintendents who agree with you, many of them across the country. y'all signed an

department of education. schools and universities rely on the department for billions of dollars in funding. ktvu south bay reporter jesse gary spoke with bay area educators today. he joins us now live from san jose. with more on the potential impact of the president's plan. jesse. >> alex, good evening to you. and the ax did not fall on the education department today, although the president has repeatedly promised he wants to see that department eliminated. the first part of his plan, deep cuts, which local educators say will impact the most vulnerable and vulnerable unfairly. educations cornerstone three hours could soon add another letter a for anxiety. this as president donald trump moves forward, shrinking the size of the federal government by targeting the education department. >> we have defunded education and that is harming our workforce. >> shortly after her swearing in march 3rd, education secretary linda mcmahon wrote my vision is aligned with the president's to send education back to the states and empower all parents to choose an excellent education for their children. the department of education's role in this new era of accountability is to restore the right

department of education. >> is not coming at all. joining us, president of the american federation. >> of teachers of west virginia, christie skidmore, it is really good to. >> have you back. thank you for being with us. >> let's talk. jd. >> hello from. >> the mountain. >> state again. >> hello. >> let's talk about. >> what this is specifically. >> going to mean. >> what are what are teachers. preparing for as it appears the shuttering of this department is imminent. >> well, here in. >> west virginia, we have fielded. >> several calls today. >> teachers are fearful. >> for their livelihood. >> fearful. they're they're fearing losing. important programing for their for their students and their families and their communities. >> we have we have. a little bit of we have some concerns. >> how is it affecting the classroom? >> you know. >> i was thinking about. >> this earlier today. >> it's just a shame. >> that our teachers can't continue to focus on educating our most valuable resources. our students, without constant distractions. you know, es

us. president donald trump says he wants to eliminate the department of education. our washington correspondent maddie beer-temple is live in dc with more on the plans and the push back. the president is getting and what steps that we see from the white house today to do this. >> i stephanie, while the president has not yet signed an executive order to get rid of the department of education. but the white house says that he plans to sign an order narrowing the scope of who can get federal student loan forgiveness. >> service employees who are part of a federal loan forgiveness program could be at risk of having to pay back their student loans if their work doesn't align with the president's agenda. a lot of these people work ngo organizations for nonprofit organizations. >> that engage in illegal or what we would consider to be improper activities. president trump plans to sign an order directing the education and treasury departments to look into who's part of the program and what they do. >> it comes days after education secretary linda mcmahon was sworn in to lea

education secretary linda mcmahon to, quote: take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the education department based on the appropriate and by law. education secretary mcmahon is set to join usorrow morning on "fox & friends." i'm sure you guys will have a whole lot of questions he campaigned on this in 2023. i want linda to put herself over the job. >> brian: you need votes in the senate to close a department down and you need 60 votes. i don't even know if every republican is for doing this. at the very least i was able to speak to her on tuesday night. i said i hear william bennett was on our channel and saying it's really hard because reagan wanted to do it, too. he said -- she said well, what i could do is lean it out. get as much money as possible to the states, and then show everyone how effective it is and maybe the senate will come to that decision. >> lawrence: which i think is the goal get more money to the localities, don't just keep it in the local traditional. open up innovation with school choice so the schools locally can compete and the bad schools get shut down and the schools that are performing at a high level getting our kids to read and do math so we ca

us a stronger better america. i think what's happened with the department of education is happy with the consumer financial protectionu. it's just like what's happening at what i think is the mother of all fights and that is what is happening in the tax fights. they are all iterations of the same thing if it what are your visions of america, the republicans say let those at the top have even more. make everyone else pay for it. the democrats are seeing a note for those of the top pay their fair share and we make investments so that everybody in america has a fighting chance to build economic security. >> you mentioned some other actions he trump administration speaking unilaterally is to dismantle agencies. i feel like this is probably the big piece of the funding side right now. can you vote for a government funding built right now given all you just said? >> we started voting on this. we talk about the tax is start to the whole series of votes. the republican party started putting it in place. the votes to lay out the budget that they want to put us into. so for those of you nerds in the room remember at the starts

. >> if you use this for the department of educational this will on these terms of the department of education and the department of agriculture. >> they are pushing back to stand this and support those loads. >> these programs are proposed on social security or medicaid for billionaires. ... the more they see it the less they are liking it. thank you. >> thank you. chairman paul, ranking member peers, , distinguished members, it's an honor to appear before you today as a presence nominee to be the deputy secretary for homeland security. i want to recognize and thank senator johnson for the very kind introduction. i'm grateful to president trump and the secretary for the trust and confidence they have placed in the period i thank the committee for considering my nomination. i am honored secretary noem has taken time out of your schedule to be here with me and support my nomination. thank you for being here. the process has enabled me to better appreciate the high honor bestowed upon me to serve the american people and better understand the critical expectations and committee, if conf

they lied on us when we were over at the department of education. 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 yo