Buck Brief - Elon is Trumping the Department of Education

The Buck Sexton Show

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Elon Musk sets his sights on dismantling the Department of Education, slashing bureaucratic bloat just as he did with Twitter. Buck Sexton breaks down how Musk, Trump, and a team of tech experts are working to restructure the federal government, eliminating inefficiencies and exposing taxpayer-funded waste. Plus, USAID is getting a serious shake-up—Buck dives into why its D.C. headquarters was shut down and what’s next.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the fuck sexton show podcast.
0:04.6	Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the IHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:10.3	Elon gets ready to Twitter, the Department of Education.
0:14.3	By that I mean, slash it down just like he did Twitter.
0:17.6	Remember that?
0:18.3	Elon Musk cut 80% of the work for us versus Twitter. They said, oh my gosh,
0:22.6	who is going to make the servers run and who's going to do all these things? And then, sure enough,
0:28.6	it turned out they didn't need all those people. Twitter, now X, works better than it ever did
0:34.0	before. And Elon looks like the managerial and leadership genius that he is.
0:40.8	Well, after a lot of important executive orders coming down from Donald Trump very quickly
0:47.3	in these first few weeks of Trump 2.0, Elon Musk has decided to get together with Doge, where he has a bunch of 20-something-year-old tech geniuses sitting around figuring out what exactly they can do to make the government function as a much more efficient entity.
1:09.4	Dismantling the education department in large part, not entirely,
1:13.1	is high on the list.
1:15.5	Now, here's what they're discussing.
1:17.7	They are looking at an executive order that would, according to Wall Street Journal,
1:22.2	shut down all functions of the agency that aren't written explicitly into statute or move certain functions
1:29.6	to other departments according to people familiar with the matter. The order would call for
1:34.1	developing a legislative proposal to abolish the department. Trump advisors are debating the specifics
1:39.7	of the order and the timing. Okay, so is it going to happen? I think something's going to happen
1:43.8	here. And let's remember that they can't just make the whole thing go timing. Okay, so is it going to happen? I think something's going to happen here.
1:49.2	And let's remember that they can't just make the whole thing go away. They need Congress to act for that to happen. I think Congress should do that, but Congress won't because these are all
1:55.0	slush funds. These agencies, you have to stand a lot of people get money from them a lot of people are
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