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Ron DeSantis: “Congress has never actually dismantled [the federal…”

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Published | Video Starts at 57:08

And they ended up not taking it away. But why would you want to be so philosophically, I'm totally sympathetic. Devolving states. The problem, I think just functionally that we're seeing is Congress has never actually dismantled [the federal Department of Education]. it. Right. Congress has not passed a law on this. So there's certain things that are being done internally through the bureaucracy, but all those programs are still on the books. (57:08–57:12)

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Asserts that Congress has not passed legislation to dismantle the federal Department of Education.

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