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Jason Crow: “If they actually follow through and cut the Department of…”

Featuring: Jason Crow, Democratic | U.S. House, Colorado, District 6

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Congressman Jason Crow Discusses Democratic Strategy and Challenges in the Trump Era

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And guess what Fulfilling those promises means. Cuts to health care, cuts to Social Security, cuts to important rural programs for education. If they actually follow through and cut the Department of Education and the Title 1 funding, or they take the Title 1 funding and they transition it to block grants or to the states, up to 180,000 teachers, mainly in rural, underserved communities, might lose their jobs. Right. These are people serving all the people's kids in that audience. You know, I am a product of public schools. (00:26–00:43)

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