Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being. Very excited about the news that Donald Trump may sign this executive order ending the Department of Education.

This is from the Wall Street Journal. They got a little preview of it. It commands the new education secretary who was just confirmed like two days ago, Lyndon McMahon, to quote, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the education department based on the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.

The experiment of controlling American education through federal programs and dollars and the unaccountable bureaucrats, these programs and dollars support, has failed our children,

our teachers, and our families.

It's beautiful.

I love it so much.

Get it done.

And you're like, oh, but what about this?

The Office of Civil Rights would move to the Justice Department.

All the student loan stuff, which really should just go away entirely, would move over to the Treasury Department.

Everyone always brings up, what about funding for special needs students?

We'll figure it out.

We actually had a special news teacher call in the other day who said the money makes it way worse, actually, because of all the strings attached.

We'll figure out all the things that are important.

But we've got to get rid of this thing once and for all.

Now, very excited about it.

Maybe the thing in my early radio career I talked about more than anything at all was getting

rid of the Department of Education. So I'm all in. And I don't want to come in too early with this

because I don't want to take away from the celebration, right? We should celebrate when it goes away.

But the truth is, as much as I wanted to go away, that alone is not going to reform

education. We are so far away from where we need to be. It will take a massive movement.

There are schools where no one can read, not a single kid can read.

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