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Linda McMahon: “Congress wouldn't have voted for [the program] otherwise.”

Featuring: Linda McMahon, Republican | Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education | National

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And that is, it is actually the first universal school choice program that the president's been able to enact. But it had to have guardrails around it because Congress wouldn't have voted for [the program] otherwise. But each state the governor can opt into this program and what it does is allow scholarship granting organizations or C3s in those states to be set up or utilize ones that are already there. (49:40–49:42)

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Asserts that Congress would not have voted for the program without certain guardrails.

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