Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show Midday Update for Friday, March 21st.

Happy Friday, folks. We all made it through another week, and it's time for the weekend.

President Trump this week signing a highly anticipated executive order calling for the dismantling of the Department of Education.

President Trump was flanked by schoolchildren, lawmakers, parental right advocates, and Republican governors from across the United States, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Trump signed in order declaring that, quote, the experiment of controlling American education through federal programs and dollars and the unaccountability of the bureaucracy that those programs and dollar support has plainly failed our children, our teachers, and our family.

When President Carter created the Federal Education Department in 1979, it was opposed by members of his own cabinet as well as the American Federation of Teachers, the New York Times editorial board, and the famed Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick

Moynihan. History has proven them right. Absolutely right, in fact, President Trump saying in that

speech before signing that executive order. Now, this order instructs the Education Secretary to,

quote, maximize extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the

Department of Education and return authority over education to the states and local communities

while ensuring the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits

which Americans rely. Consistent with the Department of Education's authority, the Secretary

of Education shall ensure, the Secretary of Education

shall ensure that the allocation of any federal department of education funds is subject to rigorous

compliance with federal law and administration policy, including the requirement that any

program or activity receding federal assistance terminate illegal discrimination, obstructed order under the labeled diversity equity of inclusion, also known as DEI, or any similar programs.

So in this, President Trump, looking to restore power back to the students, back to the teachers, get it out of the damn hands of these federal bureaucrats who have absolutely

ruined our education system in this country. FEMA fraud happening over in California, 20 times more

applicants than homes in the Los Angeles wildfires. The federal emergency management agency,

also known as FEMA, has received

270,000 applications from purported homeowners in the recent LA fires, though only about

13,000 homes were destroyed. What's going on in California? It seems maybe they're trying to

make up a few bucks off the federal government before the place gets gutted out.

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