And while these court challenges play out, we are seeing the devastating consequences of these efforts to dismantle the Department of Education's programs. Take the Office of Civil Rights, for example. In March, Trump tried to fire employees at the Office of Civil Rights. But that was challenged and the court told him that he can't do that. So what he did was to spend $38 million paying OCR employees not to come to work, which is the current situation at that office. (02:16–02:26)
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Asserts that Trump attempted to fire Office of Civil Rights employees, but was stopped by a court.
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