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President Trump Signs an Education Executive Order · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: President of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Thank you very much everything.
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  Speaker 3: And I'd like to start by saying that our country
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  Speaker 3: is doing very well. Things are, as you can see,
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  Speaker 3: doing quite well.
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  Speaker 1: Please sit down before we begin.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to announce that I signed a proclamation
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  Speaker 3: a few moments ago honoring the two hundred fiftieth anniversary
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  Speaker 3: of Patrick Henry's famous speech to the Second Virginia Convention,
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  Speaker 3: in which he declared very well known, very famous words,
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  Speaker 3: give me liberty or give me death.
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  Speaker 1: Has anyone heard the phrase? I think most of you are.
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  Speaker 3: And moments ago I also signed an executive order to
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  Speaker 3: dramatically increase production of critical minerals and rare earths. It's
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  Speaker 3: a big thing in this country. And as you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're also signing agreements in various locations to unlock.
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  Speaker 1: Rare earths and minerals.
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  Speaker 3: And lots of other things all over the world, but
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  Speaker 3: in particular Ukraine. We're doing very well with regard to
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  Speaker 3: Ukraine and Russia. And one of the things we are
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  Speaker 3: doing is signing a deal very shortly with respect to
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  Speaker 3: rare earths with Ukraine, which they have a tremendous value
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  Speaker 3: in rare earth and we appreciate that, and we spoke
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  Speaker 3: Yester today with as you know, President Putin and President Zelenski,
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  Speaker 3: and we would love to see that come to an end.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we're doing pretty well in that regard.
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  Speaker 3: So hopefully we could save thousands of people a week
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  Speaker 3: from dying.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it's all about.
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  Speaker 3: They're dying so unnecessarily, and I believe we'll get it done.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens, but I believe we'll get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Today we take a.
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  Speaker 3: Very historic action that was forty five years in the making.
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  Speaker 3: In a few moments, I will sign an executive order
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  Speaker 3: to begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once and
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  Speaker 3: for all. And it sounds strange, doesn't it. Department of Education.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to eliminate it, and everybody knows it's right,
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  Speaker 3: and the Democrats know it's right, and I hope they're
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  Speaker 3: going to be voting for it, because ultimately me come
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  Speaker 3: before them. But everybody knows it's right. Then we have
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  Speaker 3: to get our children educated. We're not doing well with
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  Speaker 3: the world of education in this country, and we haven't
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  Speaker 3: for a long time. And we're pleased to be joined
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  Speaker 3: today by the woman who I chose because she's an
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  Speaker 3: extraordinary person, and hopefully she will be our last secretary
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  Speaker 3: of Education. Linda McMahon, Linda, thank you, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: That's another interesting statement. These are very it's an interesting opening, right,
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  Speaker 3: but it's true, and we've be people.
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  Speaker 1: It's been amazing how popular this has been.
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  Speaker 3: I tell people that this is what I'm doing today,
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  Speaker 3: and they say, oh, that's it's about time. Everybody says it.
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  Speaker 3: Republicans and Democrats have said it. They're all saying it
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  Speaker 3: also with us or some terrific people. Governors Greg Abbott, Greg,
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  Speaker 3: thank you very much. Governor Ronda Santis, thank you very much. Ron,
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  Speaker 3: Mike Braun, congratulations on your victory. Mike, that was a
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  Speaker 3: big one. Mike DeWine, thank you very much, Mike, Jeff Landry, Jeff,
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  Speaker 3: thank you very much. Yet Billy, thank you. Governors all governors,
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  Speaker 3: Brad Little Brad, thank you very much. Are you Brad
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  Speaker 3: high bred? Jim Pylon, thank you very much. Jim and
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  Speaker 3: Kim Reynolds. These are all people very interested in education.
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  Speaker 3: And Uh, I even see Dan Patrick over there, my
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  Speaker 3: friend Dan Patrick. We're joined also by Representatives Tim Wahlberg
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  Speaker 3: and UH Virginia Fox, Rick Allen Michael, and again Dan Patrick.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: Dan, you've been a great friend of ours. And State
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  Speaker 3: Attorneys General Ken Paxton, Ken, I see you there. Andrew Bailey, Andrew,
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  Speaker 3: what a job you've done. Andrew, you have some good
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  Speaker 3: cases going. You've done a great job. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: And co founder of Moms for Liberty, Tiffany Justice. She's
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  Speaker 3: been a hard worker.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, Tiffany.
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  Speaker 3: When President Carter created the Federal Education Department in nineteen
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  Speaker 3: seventy nine, it was opposed by members of his own cabinet,
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  Speaker 3: as well as the American Federation of Teachers, the New
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  Speaker 3: York Times editorial board, and the famed Democrat Senator Daniel
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  Speaker 3: Patrick moynihan. History has proven them right, absolutely right. After
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  Speaker 3: forty five years, the United States spends more money on
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  Speaker 3: education by far than any their country, and spends likewise,
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  Speaker 3: by far more money per pupil than any country.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not even close.
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  Speaker 3: But yet we rank near the bottom of the list
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  Speaker 3: in terms of success. It's an amazing stat that's those
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  Speaker 3: are two stats.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want.
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  Speaker 3: The most money spent per pupil, and you're at the
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  Speaker 3: bottom of the list, and that's where we are, like
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  Speaker 3: it or not, and we've been there for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Seventy percent of eighth graders are not proficient in either
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  Speaker 3: reading or in math, seventy percent. Forty percent of fourth
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  Speaker 3: grader is lack even basic reading skills, can't read. Students
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  Speaker 3: in our public elementary and middle schools score worse in
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  Speaker 3: reading today than when the department opened. By a lot
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  Speaker 3: in Baltimore, Forty percent of the high schools have zero
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  Speaker 3: students who can do basic mathematics, not even the very
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  Speaker 3: simplest of mathematics. I said, give me your definition of basic,
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  Speaker 3: and they're talking about adding a few numbers together. Despite
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  Speaker 3: these breathtaking failures, the department's discretionary budget has exploded by
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  Speaker 3: six hundred percent in a very short period of time.
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  Speaker 3: And employees, bureaucrats and buildings all over Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 3: And as a former real estate person, I will tell
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  Speaker 3: you I ride through the streets of Washington and it
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  Speaker 3: says Department of Education.
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  Speaker 1: Department of Education.
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  Speaker 3: I said, how do you fill those buildings? It's crazy
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  Speaker 3: what's happened over the years. I'm please to report that
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  Speaker 3: after offering these federal employees two generous buy out options,
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  Speaker 3: and they were very generous, and they're good people, but
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  Speaker 3: they were very generous. My administration has initiated a reduction
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  Speaker 3: in force and we're already cutting numbers that were really
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  Speaker 3: surprising to a lot that we were able to do
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  Speaker 3: it so successfully. And we've cut the number of bureaucrats
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  Speaker 3: in half fifty percent of taking office such as thank
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  Speaker 3: you under the action I'm taking today, a small handful
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  Speaker 3: of Democrats and others that we have employed for a
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  Speaker 3: long time, and there are some Republicans, but not too many,
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  Speaker 3: I have to be honest with you. But the Department's
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  Speaker 3: useful functions and such.
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  Speaker 1: As they're in charge of them.
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  Speaker 3: Pelgrants Title one funding Resources for Children with Disabilities and
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  Speaker 3: Special needs will be preserved, fully preserved. They're all going
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  Speaker 3: to be so if you look at the pelgrants supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be a very good program. Title I funding and
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  Speaker 3: resources for children with special disabilities and special needs. They
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  Speaker 3: are going to be preserved in full and redistributed to
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  Speaker 3: various other agencies and departments that.
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  Speaker 1: Will take very good care of them.
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  Speaker 3: And it's very important to Linda, I know, and it's
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  Speaker 3: very important to all of us. But beyond these core necessities.
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  Speaker 3: My administry will take all lawful steps to shut down
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  Speaker 3: the department. We're going to shut it down and shut
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  Speaker 3: it down as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 1: It's doing us no good.
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  Speaker 3: We want to return our students to the States where
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  Speaker 3: just some of the governors here are so happy about this.
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  Speaker 3: They want education to come back to them, to come
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  Speaker 3: back to the States, and they're going to do a
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  Speaker 3: phenomenal job. You know, if you look Denmark, Norway, Sweden,
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  Speaker 3: I have to tell you I give melodic credit. China
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  Speaker 3: is a top ten and so we can't now say
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  Speaker 3: that bigness is making it impossible to educate because China
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  Speaker 3: is very big. But you have countries that do a
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  Speaker 3: very good job in education. And I really believe, like
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  Speaker 3: some of the governors here today from states that run
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  Speaker 3: very very well, including a big state like Texas, but
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  Speaker 3: states that run very well, are going to have education
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  Speaker 3: that will be as good as Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and
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  Speaker 3: those top Finland, those top countries that do so well
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  Speaker 3: the education. I think they'll do every bit as well.
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  Speaker 1: And what do you think about that, Governor? Do you
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  Speaker 1: agree I think so?
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  Speaker 3: Ron?
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  Speaker 1: Do you agree I think so Florida, Iowa. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: I really believe that they'll be as good as any
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  Speaker 3: of them. And then you'll have some laggards and we'll
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  Speaker 3: work with them. And we can all tell you who
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  Speaker 3: the laggards will be right now, probably, but let's not
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  Speaker 3: get into that.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll work with them, and we're going to make them.
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  Speaker 1: They'll do a job.
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  Speaker 3: I think they'll do a job, and they'll go to
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  Speaker 3: sections of the state. For instance, New York, you'll have
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  Speaker 3: a Manhattan and you'll have a Suffolk County, and you'll
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  Speaker 3: have Nassau County, and you have Westchester County.
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  Speaker 1: You'll do four or five or six of them. You
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  Speaker 1: have upstate New.
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  Speaker 3: York, and those counties I think are going to do
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  Speaker 3: very well. And I think ultimately Manhattan should do very well.
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  Speaker 3: But we'll break it down into sections and I think
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  Speaker 3: it'll be really really good, and they're going to be
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  Speaker 3: probably the tougher ones, but I think they have a
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  Speaker 3: chance to do really well well. But we're going to
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  Speaker 3: be returning education very simply back to the states where
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  Speaker 3: it belongs. And this is a very popular thing to do,
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  Speaker 3: but much more importantly, it's a common sense thing to do,
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  Speaker 3: and it's going to work.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's going to work.
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  Speaker 3: And I can tell you from dealing with the governors
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  Speaker 3: and others in the state, they want it so badly.
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  Speaker 3: They want to take their children back and really teach
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  Speaker 3: their children individually. Probably the court will be half and
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  Speaker 3: the education will be maybe many many times better. So
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  Speaker 3: we look forward to this. I want to just make
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  Speaker 3: one little personal statement. Teaches, to me are among the
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  Speaker 3: most important people in this country. And we're going to
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  Speaker 3: take care of our teachers. And I don't care if
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  Speaker 3: they're in the union or not in the union, that
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  Speaker 3: doesn't matter. But we're going to take care of our teachers.
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  Speaker 3: And I believe I believe the states will take actually
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  Speaker 3: better care of them. There then they are taken care
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  Speaker 3: of right now. They'll work all sorts of systems and
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  Speaker 3: even merit systems.
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  Speaker 1: Those great teachers are going to.
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  Speaker 3: Be maybe a little bit better rewarded, and maybe that's
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  Speaker 3: the way it should be.
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  Speaker 1: But the states are going to make that decision.
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  Speaker 3: But we're going to love and cherish our teachers along
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  Speaker 3: with our children.
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  Speaker 2: And they're going to work with the parents, and they're
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  Speaker 2: going to work.
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  Speaker 1: With everybody else.
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  Speaker 3: And it's going to be an amazing thing to watch,
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  Speaker 3: and it's really going to be something special. And Linda,
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  Speaker 3: you're presiding over something that's so important and you're going
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  Speaker 3: to do a fantastic job, just like you have your
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  Speaker 3: whole life. I know your whole life. I've been watching you.
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  Speaker 3: I've been watching you for a long time. She's had
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  Speaker 3: nothing but success. So it's tremendous to have you. And
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  Speaker 3: hopefully you won't be there too long, but we're going
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  Speaker 3: to find something else for you. And Okay, so this
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  Speaker 3: will conclude what we are talking about with respect to
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  Speaker 3: our most cherished group of people, and that's our children.
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  Speaker 3: We want to have our children well educated. We want
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  Speaker 3: them to love going to school. We have examples of it.
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  Speaker 3: Look at those beautiful, bright eyed faces.
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  Speaker 1: Those they are so smart. They are so smart.
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  Speaker 3: And with that, I'm going to come down and we're
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  Speaker 3: going to sign a very important document and we're going
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  Speaker 3: to be on our way. People have wanted to do
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  Speaker 3: this for many many years, for many many decades, and
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  Speaker 3: I don't know no president ever got around to doing it,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm getting around to doing it.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: Should I do this, I do it?
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  Speaker 1: I think So it depends your two special friends. Let's
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  Speaker 1: take this one out. I had one. It was very lucky.
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  Speaker 3: I signed another document that turned out to be very
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  Speaker 3: good for the country, and I said, let's use that
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  Speaker 3: same pen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, is anybody.
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  Speaker 3: Superstitious, ron, are you superstitious?
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  Speaker 1: Let's use that same pen.
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  Speaker 3: Okay that what can you come? Can you come up
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  Speaker 3: just to say, come on, that's good.
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  Speaker 1: You very a boy, a big factor here. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: everybody very much. Good lens in the backgrounds