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🗓️ 20 March 2025

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President Donald Trump is looking to fulfill a campaign promise with his latest dismantling attempt. We have have an update on the back-and-forth between a judge and the Justice Department on deportation flights. A third American has been released under the Trump administration. Fed-up voters are airing out their frustrations at lawmakers during heated town halls. Plus, an NBA team sold for a record price. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From CNN, I'm a phoma dk, with the five things you need to know for Thursday, March 20th.
0:08.3	President Donald Trump signed an executive order today to start the process of dismantling the Department of Education
0:14.4	after the agency announced earlier this month that it's cutting nearly 50% of its workforce.
0:20.4	We're going to shut it down and shut it down as quickly as possible.
0:23.7	It's doing us no good.
0:24.8	We want to return our students to the states.
0:28.2	While shutting down the department requires Congress's approval, one Trump administration
0:32.9	officials says Trump will direct education secretary Linda McMahon to take steps to close it. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says Trump will direct Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take steps to close it.
0:38.9	White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says Trump is trying to make the department smaller.
0:44.1	When it comes to student loans and Pell grants, those will still be run out of the Department of Education.
0:48.6	But we don't need to be spending more than $3 trillion over the course of a few decades
0:53.0	on a department that's clearly failing in its
0:55.8	initial intention to educate our students.
0:57.7	No president in modern history has tried to close down a cabinet-level agency.
1:02.7	U.S. District Judge James Bolesburg chastised the Department of Justice today about its response
1:10.0	on deportation flights, calling it, quote,
1:12.8	woefully insufficient.
1:14.7	It's the latest in the back and forth between the judge and DOJ.
1:18.6	The judge said the department didn't obey his order that a turnover information he's seeking
1:23.1	about migrant deportations to El Salvador, the Trump administration carried out last weekend.
1:28.3	Saying it, quote, evaded its obligations.
1:31.3	Over the weekend, the judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from using a wartime power to deport hundreds of mostly Venezuelan alleged gang members
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