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🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | It's Friday, March 21st. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waddey, the show that is not going to buy stock in Tesla, especially if the Secretary of Commerce goes on Fox News and says, we should all buy stock in Tesla. |
0:15.6 | At this point, if Howard Lutnik told me the sky was blue, I'd check a few times first. |
0:28.5 | Music If Howard Lutnik told me the sky was blue, I'd check a few times first. On today's show, the federal courts steal another blow to the Department of Government |
0:32.9 | Efficiency. |
0:33.9 | And the UK tells travelers, be careful if you're headed to the U.S. of A. |
0:38.0 | But let's start with the end of the Department of Education. |
0:41.5 | For real this time? Sort of. Maybe. |
0:45.4 | Today we take a very historic action that was 45 years in the making. |
0:50.7 | In a few moments, I will sign an executive order to begin eliminating the federal Department of Education |
0:57.6 | once and for all. |
1:00.9 | On Thursday, in front of a bunch of kids sitting at desks for some reason, President Donald Trump |
1:06.3 | signed an executive order to start shutting down the Department of Education. |
1:10.2 | Well, in his opinion. |
1:12.3 | But if you've been listening to the show, you know that this has been the plan all along. |
1:17.3 | For weeks, the Trump administration has been attacking the Department of Education, |
1:21.5 | cutting almost 50% of the department staff last week. In a letter to the department, |
1:26.4 | Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said that her |
1:28.7 | job was to foment a, quote, effective transfer of educational oversight to the states, adding, |
1:34.4 | quote, this is our opportunity to perform one final, unforgettable public service to future generations |
1:40.3 | of students. Unforgettable, definitely, maybe even irreparable. But again, you can't just |
1:46.8 | end the Department of Education with an executive order. It actually requires an act of Congress. Remember |
1:51.9 | them? Now, Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy has promised to sponsor a bill |
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