Recently, for example, Trump tried to take advantage of the shutdown to illegally fire hundreds more workers from the Education Department, including at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and and the Office for Civil rights Education Secretary McMahon claimed the shutdown proved the Education Department is unnecessary. Department is unnecessary. This is a kind of unsubstantiated I can hardly believe that she would consider this proof of any kind. (05:30–06:04)
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Asserts that Education Secretary McMahon claimed the shutdown showed the Education Department is unnecessary.
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