Speaker 1: We have a dream, and you know what the dream is.
Speaker 1: We're going to move the Department of Education. We're going
Speaker 1: to move education into the States so that the states
Speaker 1: instead of bureaucrats working in Washington, so that the states
Speaker 1: can run education.
Speaker 2: You're listening to a forty seven Morning Update Special Government
Speaker 2: shut down edition with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 3: Good Thursday morning, Ben Ferguson with you. It's nice to
Speaker 3: have you on the forty seven Morning Update. Is we
Speaker 3: have a special show for you this morning. So many
Speaker 3: of you that listen to the show want to know
Speaker 3: the facts about what the president's actually accomplishing. This is
Speaker 3: one of those special shows that I hope you will
Speaker 3: share everywhere on social media. It's the forty seven Morning
Speaker 3: Update and it starts right now. Story number one, a
Speaker 3: government shutdown is now likely after Chuck Schumer says that
Speaker 3: Senate Democrats will block a GOP funding bill. The Speaker
Speaker 3: of the House, Mike Johnson making it very clear that
Speaker 3: the same Democrats who have always said we can never
Speaker 3: shut down the government and it hurts Americans and poor
Speaker 3: people and the world is going to end now that
Speaker 3: Donald Trump is in charge, They've decided, Nah, I we'll
Speaker 3: just throw that all out the window and go with
Speaker 3: the government shutdown just to try to hurt Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: Take a list, and the speaker in his own words.
Speaker 4: They're planning to vote down the simple bill. They are
Speaker 4: going to try to shut the government down. Every House
Speaker 4: Democrat will participate on this. It looks like that would
Speaker 4: be a shame if it's true. I hope some of
Speaker 4: them will have a moment of clarity themselves and do
Speaker 4: the right thing. But it looks like they're going to
Speaker 4: try to shut down the government. It's a striking new
Speaker 4: posture for Democrats who have always said this has been
Speaker 4: apoplectic about the prospect of government shutdowns.
Speaker 3: So just think for a second about what the speaker
Speaker 3: just said. It's very clear that Democrats are solely doing
Speaker 3: this for political reasons, and they want America to suffer.
Speaker 3: They want Americans to suffer because they want you to
Speaker 3: blame Donald Trump for any inconvenience or real pain that
Speaker 3: comes from a government shut down. You can also look
Speaker 3: at it this way. They're advocating for tanking the American
Speaker 3: economy because they don't actually care about Americans. In fact,
Speaker 3: listen to the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in his
Speaker 3: own words about why they're doing it.
Speaker 5: Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans
Speaker 5: chose a partisan path, drafting their Continuing Resolution without any input,
Speaker 5: any input from Congressional Democrats. Because of that, Republicans do
Speaker 5: not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture
Speaker 5: on the House CR. Our caucus is unified on a
Speaker 5: clean April eleventh CR that will keep the government open
Speaker 5: and give Congress time to negotiate bi partisan legislation that
Speaker 5: can pass. We should vote on that. I hope, I
Speaker 5: hope our Republican colleagues will join us to avoid a
Speaker 5: shutdown on Friday.
Speaker 3: Translation Chuck Schumer saying, we the Democratic Party, are holding
Speaker 3: Congress and the American people hostage because of that. As
Speaker 3: he said, Republicans do not have the votes in the
Speaker 3: Senate toot quoture on the House Continuing the rest, So
Speaker 3: now it is a government shutdown that will be created
Speaker 3: solely by the Democrats, with the Republicans holding a fifty
Speaker 3: three to forty seven advantage in the Senate. Chuck Schumer
Speaker 3: also understands that guess what, you don't always work together
Speaker 3: with the other side, because when the American people voted
Speaker 3: in Donald Trump and gave the Senate back to the
Speaker 3: Republicans and the House control in the hands of the Republicans.
Speaker 3: They didn't ask Donald Trump to quote compromise with Democrats.
Speaker 3: They said to Donald Trump, go to Washington, save us money,
Speaker 3: and go with a mandate to do what we're sending
Speaker 3: you there to do. Now, the question is how long
Speaker 3: could this last? Only the Democrats can answer that question,
Speaker 3: as they're holding all of us hostage.
Speaker 2: Next story number two.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump ran on a issue that actually saw incredible
Speaker 3: engagement in the presidential election cycle. It was the issue
Speaker 3: of education. American schools are failing. In fact, we are
Speaker 3: the lowest in many categories with the rest of the
Speaker 3: world in reading and writing and arithmetic. There are quite
Speaker 3: a few failing schools virtually everywhere you go in the country,
Speaker 3: and public education has been a disaster. We've continued to
Speaker 3: throw more money at it, and we've seen no increase
Speaker 3: on test scores or a return on our investment where
Speaker 3: students are getting better at the basics like reading, writing,
Speaker 3: and arithmetic. The President has made it clear he believes
Speaker 3: that the federal Department of Education is a disaster, something
Speaker 3: that you cannot fix. Now, let's be clear, the President's
Speaker 3: not said that we can't fix education, and he believes
Speaker 3: it should be going back to the states. Well, the
Speaker 3: President was in an Oval Office meeting and the conversation
Speaker 3: came up about education. And here's what the President said.
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 Gend's last few days. They hit last,
Speaker 1: so they were number forty. And yet we're number one
Speaker 1: in costs for people. So it's pretty bad. But we
Speaker 1: have a dream. And you know what the dream is.
Speaker 1: We're going to move the Department of Education. We're going
Speaker 1: to move education into the states so that the states,
Speaker 1: instead of bureaucrats working in Washington, so that the states
Speaker 1: can run education.
Speaker 3: Now, this goes back to a basic promise that Donald
Speaker 3: Trump had made during the campaign. He believes that on
Speaker 3: the local and state level, they can run education in
Speaker 3: a much more efficient way than the federal government can.
Speaker 3: With all of the corruption in Washington, d C. Which
Speaker 3: brings me to something else. Linda McMahon, the Education Secretary,
Speaker 3: has now come out and had a major round of
Speaker 3: layoffs gutting the Civil Rights Office as well. The Education
Speaker 3: department Civil Rights branch is losing nearly half of its staff,
Speaker 3: and the Trump administration's layoff round one effectively gutting an
Speaker 3: office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complaints
Speaker 3: from students and families, they say, from across the nation.
Speaker 3: Among a total of more than one thy three hundred
Speaker 3: layoffs that were announced this week, roughly two hundred and
Speaker 3: forty in the Department's Office for Civil Rights were in
Speaker 3: that group that. According to a list obtained and verified
Speaker 3: by the Associated Press, seven of the Civil Rights Agency's
Speaker 3: twelve regional offices were entirely laid off, including Busy Hobbs
Speaker 3: in New York, Chicago, and Dallas. Despite assurances that the
Speaker 3: Department's work will continue unaffected, huge numbers of cases Democrats
Speaker 3: now say appear to quote unquote being limbo. Insert fearmongering
Speaker 3: right here. What democrats do well now? The Trump administration
Speaker 3: has not said how it will proceed with these cases
Speaker 3: being handled by its staff and many of those around
Speaker 3: them that have been eliminated. The cases will involve families
Speaker 3: trying to get school services for students with disabilities, and
Speaker 3: that is something that Trump administration has said is important.
Speaker 3: We also know, though, that the entire Department of Education
Speaker 3: is well bloated and it's time to dismantle it piece
Speaker 3: by piece so that the President United States of America
Speaker 3: can then hand control back to the States. It's exactly
Speaker 3: what he said about Martin Luther King and his dream now,
Speaker 3: which is to give every kid a quality education and
Speaker 3: an education they can be proud of, and an education
Speaker 3: that has a return on our investment, and an education
Speaker 3: that prepares kids for college and the future. We have
Speaker 3: far too many public schools in America, and the Presence
Speaker 3: made this clear that are handing out basically worthless pieces
Speaker 3: of paper after you quote graduate the twelfth grade, even
Speaker 3: though you're not reading at that level, writing at that level,
Speaker 3: or doing math and science at that level. So for
Speaker 3: Donald Trump, this is another step in that promise from
Speaker 3: his campaign and a step that many parents will be
Speaker 3: happy about in States when they actually get back control
Speaker 3: of their public school system. And finally, story number three,
Speaker 3: I want to take it back back to twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: It was the very first time that the media and
Speaker 3: Democrats used Russia to try to attack Donald Trump. You
Speaker 3: may remember the Russian collusion, Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, as
Speaker 3: Donald Trump has said countless times with good reason. Well,
Speaker 3: now the Democratic Party is trying to use Russia again
Speaker 3: to undermine Donald Trump and his popularity, all because he
Speaker 3: wants to see a ridiculous war be ended between Russia
Speaker 3: and Ukraine. They're trying to drive a wedge between the
Speaker 3: President and the American people, claiming that Donald Trump favors
Speaker 3: Vladimir Putin and that there's some sort of shady, corrupt
Speaker 3: business going on between the two men, which we all
Speaker 3: know is obviously a massive lie, a lie that's been
Speaker 3: orchestrated by the Democratic Party. Well there's a new story
Speaker 3: that you probably haven't heard about, and I hope you'll
Speaker 3: take this show and share it everywhere, because what I'm
Speaker 3: about to tell you is something that literally no one
Speaker 3: is covered. Donald Trump has threatened devastating financial penalties now
Speaker 3: for Russia. I didn't say Ukraine. I said for Russia
Speaker 3: and Vladimir Putin. President Trump on Wednesday threatened the quote
Speaker 3: devastating financial penalties for Russia if the president Vladimir Putin
Speaker 3: does not agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine that Ukraine
Speaker 3: has agreed to. Quote, there are things that wouldn't be pleasant.
Speaker 3: In a financial sense. I can do things financially that
Speaker 3: would be very bad for Russia. I don't want to
Speaker 3: do that because I want to get peace. That is
Speaker 3: what Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Quote.
Speaker 3: In a financial sense, yes, we could do things that
Speaker 3: would be very bad for Russia. That would be devastating
Speaker 3: for Russia. But I don't want to do that because
Speaker 3: I want to see peace, and we're getting close to
Speaker 3: maybe getting something done. We got Ukraine done, and as
Speaker 3: you know, Ukraine might have been the more difficult party here.
Speaker 3: You were here a week ago when some interesting things happen.
Speaker 3: Referring to the Zolensky meeting in the Oval Office, Trump
Speaker 3: went on to say I had somebody who didn't seem
Speaker 3: to want peace. Now he's agreed to peace. Trump also
Speaker 3: said people are going to Russia right now as we speak,
Speaker 3: and hopefully we can get a ceasefire from Russia. If
Speaker 3: we do, I think that would be eighty percent of
Speaker 3: the way to getting this horrible bloodbath to end. So
Speaker 3: the question that all of us should be looking at
Speaker 3: and asking now is this, why is the media not
Speaker 3: reporting this story? Number one and number two? A president
Speaker 3: is trying to bring peace. Why aren't they celebrating this?
Speaker 3: Why is the world media not celebrating this? And why
Speaker 3: is it that this isn't the number one leading story
Speaker 3: on every news channel right now that the president got
Speaker 3: Zelensky agreed to peace after one week of him being
Speaker 3: in the White House angry and yelling and arguing with
Speaker 3: Donald Trump. And then the other question is this, why
Speaker 3: aren't democrats, if you really want to talk about Russian collusion? Why,
Speaker 3: and this may be the most important part, why are
Speaker 3: they not demanding peace from Vladimir Putin? Why are world
Speaker 3: leaders not demanding peace from Vladimir Putin? Let's be clear,
Speaker 3: there is now an official deal on the table. Why
Speaker 3: is it that foreign leaders aren't walking out in front
Speaker 3: of microphones and demanding the Vladimir Putin agreed to the
Speaker 3: ceasefire deal which Zolensky and Ukraine have agreed to, And
Speaker 3: why aren't any of them talking about how quickly this
Speaker 3: deal was done by Donald Trump? Now, look, I expect
Speaker 3: the media to hate Donald Trump. I expect many world
Speaker 3: leaders to well be jealous of him. But this should
Speaker 3: be bigger than that. This is about saving countless lives
Speaker 3: and so many families that have been destroyed in Russia
Speaker 3: and Ukraine in a sense war from the very beginning.
Speaker 3: This is what leaders do. They lead. And the sad
Speaker 3: thing is apparently in this country right now with our media.
Speaker 3: If his name is Donald Trump and he does something
Speaker 3: incredible like work for a piece deal, they will at
Speaker 3: best say something negative about him, or maybe just not
Speaker 3: tell you the story at all.
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