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Jasmine Crockett: “No president, this one Joe Biden or any other, would have…”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett discusses dismantling the U.S. Dept. of Education and DOGE.

Published | Video Starts at 00:52

And the reason that I say that is because the Department of Education, unlike Doge, is a real department. That's number one. Number two, when I say that it's real, it was created by Congress. That means that No president, this one Joe Biden or any other, would have ever had the ability to, with the swipe of their pen, decide that they were going to delete this entire agency. And so what he's about to do is break the law again. Some court will come in and tell him, no, no, no, Mr. President, just so you know, you're not allowed to do that. (00:52–01:05)

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Asserts that a president cannot unilaterally abolish the Department of Education.

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