2.13.25 Removing the Department of Education, purging federal employees, and remembering songs of love and longing

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

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Eliminating the Department of Education (https://wng.org/podcasts/dismantling-the-department-of-education-1739388474), downsizing the federal workforce (https://wng.org/podcasts/federal-layoffs-buyouts-and-the-rule-of-law-1739388475), and opening the Great American Songbook (https://wng.org/podcasts/the-great-american-songbook-songs-of-love-and-longing-1739388476). Plus, trolling (https://wng.org/podcasts/kicker-juking-football-fans-1739388475) Ohio State football fans, Cal Thomas (https://wng.org/podcasts/cal-thomas-eliminating-common-cents-1739388476) on ditching coins, and the Thursday morning news (https://wng.org/podcasts/thursday-morning-news-february-13-2025-1739388473).Support The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate (https://donate.wng.org/). Additional support comes from Ambassadors Impact Network, where entrepreneurs can discover faith-aligned funding opportunities. More at (http://ambassadorsimpact.com/)ambassadorsimpact.com (http://ambassadorsimpact.com/)

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0:00.0	Good morning.
0:06.6	President Donald Trump wants to return education to the states.
0:10.4	If the Department of Education goes away, what about the most vulnerable students?
0:15.0	I don't think that ultimately education for people with disabilities is going to be considered waste once they look at everything.
0:21.7	Also, efforts to streamline the federal government workforce.
0:25.2	No one is saying that the president can't do that.
0:27.8	They're just asking the president to check in with Congress.
0:31.2	And Bob Case brings us love songs from the Great American Songbook.
0:35.5	Plus, world contributor Cal Thomas puts in his two cents about the penny.
0:46.5	It's Thursday, February 13th.
0:49.1	This is The World and Everything in it from listeners, supported world radio.
0:53.1	I'm Mary Reichard.
0:54.9	And I'm Lindsay Mast. Good morning. Time for the news now with Kent Covington. President Trump says Russia's
1:03.4	Vladimir Putin is ready to talk peace. Trump said he had a lengthy phone conversation with Putin
1:09.3	about ending the war in Ukraine.
1:18.9	He wants it to end. And that's President Putin said that. He wants it to end. He doesn't want to end it and then go back to fighting six months later.
1:27.7	We talked about the possibility. I mentioned it of a ceasefire so we can stop the killing. And I think we'll probably end up at some point getting a ceasefire in the not too distant future. Trump also spoke yesterday with Ukrainian president Volodemir Zelensky
1:32.6	who said he was thankful. To the president, to his message that he will support Ukraine and
1:37.1	here. They want to stop this war and I know that he's a strong man and I'm sure that he will push Putin.
1:45.5	Hundreds of thousands of people have died and nearly a million more wounded since Russia
1:50.5	launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago.
1:54.5	But what might a peace deal to end the war look like?
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