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Mark Pocan: “They want to cut 45% of the Department of Education under…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Rep. Mark Pocan talks Democrats walking out of Trump's speech of lies.

Published | Video Starts at 08:06

And, you know, Elon Musk will get richer and Mark Zuckerberg will get richer and Jeff Bezos will get richer and Donald Trump will get richer. But, you know, it's not just that we lose programs to pay for that, you know, education, They want to cut 45% of the Department of Education under the community jurisdiction education. if you do that, you start cutting ida or which is like special ed funds or title one funds for lower income areas. (08:06–08:12)

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Asserts that there is a proposal to cut 45% of the Department of Education's budget.

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