President Trump recently took another massive, illegal step to try and abolish the Department of Education. So I wanted to take a moment to step back and talk about where things stand. President Trump came into office vowing to abolish the [Department of Education]. department, despite saying he didn't know anything about Project 2025 and didn't have anything to do with it. He decided he was going to make implementing the Project 2025 plan to abolish the Department of Education one of his top goals. (00:13–00:18)
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