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Linda McMahon: “There hasn't always been a Department of Education. It…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 05:21

And as we look at, you know, as we look at the budget and we look at the ways that we're trying to do this, they make sense. This is not something that's, you know, extraordinary, you know, that we're doing. There hasn't always been a Department of Education. It didn't come about until 1980. And all of the funding streams managed to get to where they were supposed to go. And I just certainly think that we can get rid of a lot of bureaucracy and the cost in Washington. (05:21–05:27)

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