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Patty Murray: “Congress has repeatedly and clearly authorized those…”

Featuring: Patty Murray, Democratic | U.S. Senate Washington

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Murray Calls Out Trump Admin's Illegal Scheme to Transfer Key ED Responsibilities to Other Agencies

Published | Video Starts at 01:05

And they promised to keep moving more programs, including special education, to other agencies, all without consulting Congress. That should be unacceptable to every single one of us. Congress has repeatedly and clearly authorized those programs at the Department of Education. And provided funding to the Department of Education to carry them out. Moving programs to agencies without the experience nor the capacity to administer them is really a disservice to our students and to our schools. (01:05–01:13)

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Asserts that Congress has authorized education programs to be managed by the Department of Education.

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