Speaker 1: Well, the only thing I totally admired about sleepy Joe
Speaker 1: Biden is the following. He'd go to a beach, he'd
Speaker 1: lay down in a cut barely able to get his
Speaker 1: feet through the sand, and within minutes he's sleeping and
Speaker 1: you have cameras watching him. I could never do that.
Speaker 1: I would never be able to slip like that.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 3: Good Thursday morning.
Speaker 4: Ben Ferguson with it's nice to have you on the
Speaker 4: forty seven Morning Update, and there's three major stories we're
Speaker 4: dealing with. First up, Donald Trump to sign a major
Speaker 4: order shutting down the Department of Education. I have the
Speaker 4: details in just a moment. Also, a major win for
Speaker 4: American consumers with gas and egg prices coming down quickly.
Speaker 4: What caused it and will this have an effect on
Speaker 4: other products that in a moment. And finally, Donald Trump
Speaker 4: moves to get rid of well major debt issues in
Speaker 4: this country with the introduction of golden visas, and he
Speaker 4: explains exactly how to work. It's the forty seven Morning
Speaker 4: Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 3: Story number one is another promise.
Speaker 4: That Donald Trump made to the American people, We're going
Speaker 4: to get rid of the Department of Education because they're
Speaker 4: doing a terrible job and they're not actually educating our kids.
Speaker 4: In fact, we are the lowest ranking in many categories
Speaker 4: of industrialized nations. And that is why Donald Trump today
Speaker 4: is going to sign an order to shut down the
Speaker 4: Department of Education. Now, to be clear, as the left
Speaker 4: is already fear mongering over this, this doesn't mean that
Speaker 4: any child in a public school is not going to
Speaker 4: be able to go to a school. He's made it
Speaker 4: clear it is time to hand this responsibility back over
Speaker 4: to the states so the states can do what is
Speaker 4: right for the students in their state. The President also
Speaker 4: said that many of the people that are working at
Speaker 4: the Department of Education, well they're not even showing up
Speaker 4: for work or doing their job at all.
Speaker 3: Take a listen.
Speaker 1: The Department of Educations may be more so than any
Speaker 1: other place, has a lot of people. They can be
Speaker 1: cut the number one not showing up to work. Number two,
Speaker 1: they're not doing a good job. And if you take
Speaker 1: a look at take a look at our education process,
Speaker 1: and if you look at the charts, because they have
Speaker 1: numerous charts where they do the top forty. We're at
Speaker 1: number thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty nine, and forty. And
Speaker 1: recently they hit during Biden's last few days. They hit last,
Speaker 1: so they were number forty, and yet we're number one
Speaker 1: in costs per pupil. So it's pretty bad. But we
Speaker 1: have a dream, and you know what the dream is.
Speaker 1: We're gonna move the Department of Education. We're gonna move
Speaker 1: education into the states so that the states instead of
Speaker 1: bureaucrats working in Washington, so that the states can run education.
Speaker 1: And you have Norway, you have Denmark of Sweden, you
Speaker 1: have various Finland, you have various countries that do very well.
Speaker 1: You also have China that does very well in education,
Speaker 1: which is a pretty big tribute to China. I must
Speaker 1: say one point four billion, and they're in the top ten.
Speaker 1: Pretty amazing. So we can't blame size anymore. You know,
Speaker 1: normally you'd blame size. It's too big, how can you
Speaker 1: do it? But China does it. So we think when
Speaker 1: you move it back to Iowa and Indiana and all
Speaker 1: the states that run so well, there's so many I
Speaker 1: could name thirty, maybe almost forty, those will be as
Speaker 1: good as Denmark. Those will be as good as Norway,
Speaker 1: and they'll be as good as any of these. I
Speaker 1: believe they'll be as good as any Now then you're
Speaker 1: gonna have ten that won't be so great. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have five that will not be good at all. But
Speaker 1: we'll work with them and we'll get them to be good.
Speaker 1: But what we want to do is always school choice.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna do school choice, and we're doing it.
Speaker 1: But we want education to be moved back where the
Speaker 1: states run education, where the parents of the children will
Speaker 1: be running education, where governors that are doing a very
Speaker 1: good job, we'll be running education, not run I drive
Speaker 1: through the city and I see like so many buildings,
Speaker 1: Department of Education, Department of big buildings, the department and
Speaker 1: by the way, they're empty. Nobody shows up to work.
Speaker 3: Nobody shows up to work.
Speaker 4: This is why the President is saying it is time
Speaker 4: to overhaul the system and save Americans a ton of
Speaker 4: money and give it back to the states where they
Speaker 4: can run the system better and have better test scores
Speaker 4: and test results. Now you also heard the President talk
Speaker 4: about school choice. It is something that he is a
Speaker 4: huge advocate for. Now, the order I'm being told from
Speaker 4: the White House directs the Education Secretary, Linda McMahon to quote,
Speaker 4: take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the
Speaker 4: Department of Education and return education authority to the States,
Speaker 4: while continuing to ensure the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs,
Speaker 4: and benefits on which Americans rely. It also mandates that
Speaker 4: any program or activities receiving remaining Department of Education fund
Speaker 4: should not advance DEI or gender ideology. The President making
Speaker 4: it clear, this is about educating our kids. Now, get
Speaker 4: ready to watch many states move like never before to
Speaker 4: advocate for school choice. And if you're in favor of
Speaker 4: school choice, now is the time to go to work
Speaker 4: on your elected officials in your state, because this could
Speaker 4: totally transform education for countless kids all over America.
Speaker 3: Now story number two, Donald.
Speaker 4: Trump promised when he was elected that he was going
Speaker 4: to do everything he could to bring prices that had
Speaker 4: gotten out of control back down for American consumers.
Speaker 3: For American families.
Speaker 4: Two of the big things that American families need is
Speaker 4: gas for their cars and eggs to feed their family. Well,
Speaker 4: we now have some very big news. The average host
Speaker 4: sale price per dozen eggs has dropped to three dollars
Speaker 4: and ten cents. How significant is that it is down
Speaker 4: forty seven percent from six fifty five per dozen from
Speaker 4: January the twenty first of this year. The White House
Speaker 4: is now stated The White House on March the seventeenth,
Speaker 4: announced this drop in egg and gasoline prices, calling it
Speaker 4: a win for not only the Trump Administration's economic agenda,
Speaker 4: but for the American people that have been hurting for.
Speaker 3: So long now.
Speaker 4: Egg prices had soared in recent months, reaching an average
Speaker 4: high of four dollars and ninety five cents per dozen
Speaker 4: in January that according to the Department of Labor, and
Speaker 4: then from January of twenty twenty four to January twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five, egg prices increased by fifty four percent. My
Speaker 4: primary reason for the skyrocking prices is the avian influenza
Speaker 4: avian flu, which has led to the calling of tens
Speaker 4: of millions of egg laying hens in recent months. This
Speaker 4: is something that was actually talked about by the USDA
Speaker 4: Secretary Kay Rowlands in a recent interview, but saying that
Speaker 4: it was time for someone to take charge since the
Speaker 4: Biden administration refused to do it.
Speaker 5: A long way to go listen. Combating the av and
Speaker 5: bird flu is not something that we can do overnight.
Speaker 5: It is a long term effort. But the Biden administration,
Speaker 5: this was a major problem that they had two years ago.
Speaker 5: They talked about it, they wrote some plans about it,
Speaker 5: and then nothing ever happened. So I think that it
Speaker 5: is really important to know and for your viewers that
Speaker 5: we are on it. We have a major plan we've
Speaker 5: rolled out. As you mentioned, it's got five different points,
Speaker 5: but the really piece of at least right now today
Speaker 5: good news is that the price of eggs seemed to
Speaker 5: be coming down, and dollar eighty five per carton is
Speaker 5: not insignificant, but we've got a long way to go now.
Speaker 4: The US Department of Agriculture said last month that more
Speaker 4: than twenty three million birds were cold in January to
Speaker 4: contain the virus, and that followed more than eighteen million
Speaker 4: in December of twenty twenty four that were put down
Speaker 4: as well. Several weeks ago, the USDA also warned that
Speaker 4: egg prices could jump by more than.
Speaker 3: Forty percent this year.
Speaker 4: But as you just heard there from the Agricultural Secretary,
Speaker 4: nothing is going to stand in the way of doing
Speaker 4: everything they can for the prices to continue to come down.
Speaker 4: So Let's move to the other big issue, and that
Speaker 4: is dealing with a nationwide average for gas, and that
Speaker 4: has declined for four straight weeks and down forty two
Speaker 4: cents from one year ago. The White House pointed to
Speaker 4: data is showing that the average for a gallon of
Speaker 4: gas is now under three dollars at two ninety nine
Speaker 4: or less at more than two thirds of all gas stations.
Speaker 4: The Trump administration has faced some blowback in recent days
Speaker 4: over its economic policies. The left continues to attack, particularly
Speaker 4: their tariffs and the declines in the Dall Jones Industrial
Speaker 4: Average and Nasdaq. But the White House saying, we are
Speaker 4: staying the course, understanding that there is going to be
Speaker 4: tough days for America to have a major recorrect on price,
Speaker 4: and tariffs are going to help us get that done.
Speaker 4: When it comes to the issue of gasoline, the President
Speaker 4: is saying, drill, baby, drill, making it clear that we're
Speaker 4: not going to be held hostage by the Middle East
Speaker 4: or any other nation, that America has more than enough
Speaker 4: resources to take care of itself and to lower prices
Speaker 4: for all Americans. Yet again, another promise from the President
Speaker 4: that egg prices would come down and the gasoline prices
Speaker 4: will come down, paying off in the first two months
Speaker 4: in office.
Speaker 2: And here is story number three.
Speaker 4: One of the core issues the President of the United
Speaker 4: States of America said he believes is his job now
Speaker 4: is to cut government waste, fraud, and abuse, and to
Speaker 4: deal with our out of control federal deficit, which is
Speaker 4: in the trillions of dollars. Donald Trump is also looking
Speaker 4: at ways to bring more money into the country and
Speaker 4: one way he says we can do it is by
Speaker 4: having a five million dollar payment to our government for
Speaker 4: a golden visa. Believes that this is a major opportunity
Speaker 4: for America to pay down our debt. Now, he was
Speaker 4: talking with Laura Ingram on Fox News Channel about these visas,
Speaker 4: and this is what he wanted the American people to know.
Speaker 6: The Golden visa, which you also you're obviously backing, probably
Speaker 6: is going to have to go through Congress. We'll see
Speaker 6: if they actually do that. But five million dollar investment
Speaker 6: from a foreigner coming into the United States, why should
Speaker 6: our citizenship be purchased for any amount of money, especially
Speaker 6: given the fact that you're America first, Given the types
Speaker 6: of people who have five million dollars to throw down
Speaker 6: for a visa, or for a permanent residency.
Speaker 1: That's why, because I'm America first. Because at five million dollars,
Speaker 1: you're getting a lot of things, but you're getting five
Speaker 1: million dollars. Let's say we sell a million of them.
Speaker 1: That's five trillion dollars. We are now a unbelievably successful
Speaker 1: country paying down tremendous amounts of debt. All going to
Speaker 1: pay down debt. We're going to have very little debt.
Speaker 3: Separate.
Speaker 1: But if you did think of it, if you did
Speaker 1: five million dollars. Now, generally people that can pay five
Speaker 1: million dollars are going to be job producers. Okay, they're
Speaker 1: going to be successful. They're going to produce jobs. But
Speaker 1: here's another thing. Apple comes to me. A lot of
Speaker 1: companies come to me. They say, sir, we just made
Speaker 1: a deal to hire the number one student at the
Speaker 1: Wharton School of Finance or at Harvard Business School or
Speaker 1: anything else, or MIT or Stanford or anything. But they're
Speaker 1: going to throw them out of the country the day
Speaker 1: after graduation.
Speaker 3: They'll buy these.
Speaker 6: Why should any American kid become a company?
Speaker 1: And by the way, they're going to call it either
Speaker 1: the gold card. The problem is is mini gold cards? Well,
Speaker 1: I will tell you what my people want to call it.
Speaker 1: It'll drive you crazy. It'll drive the left crazy. They
Speaker 1: want to call it the Trump card because the Trump
Speaker 1: card sells much better than the Gold card. Everybody has
Speaker 1: a you're.
Speaker 6: Not worried about any unsavory people coming in and take me.
Speaker 1: I'm worried about unsavory, in which case we'll get it,
Speaker 1: given the money back, and they get out.
Speaker 6: They'll be properly vetted.
Speaker 1: Are they going to be properly vetted? But you know
Speaker 1: what you're talking about a lot of people. I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be very successful. If somebody's wrong, we
Speaker 1: get we actually very very nice because it makes it
Speaker 1: a lot easier legally. We give them that money back
Speaker 1: and we send them.
Speaker 3: Out one thanks for sure.
Speaker 4: The President United States of America is looking for new
Speaker 4: ways to bring actual cash into the United States of
Speaker 4: America from people overseas. In other words, he's looking at
Speaker 4: them as customers instead of all the money coming from
Speaker 4: the American taxpayer. As for the program and the fear mongering,
Speaker 4: many in the media are doing this, they're saying, what
Speaker 4: if an unsavory.
Speaker 3: Person comes in.
Speaker 4: You just heard the President make it very clear we'll
Speaker 4: kick him out. Maybe we'll give them a refund and
Speaker 4: we'll move on.
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