He said, we need to change this. And he said, this Education Department got stood up in 1980, and since then, the scores have gone like this, and We have spent over $3 trillion for failure [in education]. And he said, we don't need this. We didn't have it before. We did better than we've been doing with the Department of Education. (09:21–09:36)
CLAIM
Asserts that over $3 trillion has been spent on education with poor results.
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