They don't view that as reliable information. So anyway, it's frustrating to actually get uniform information on some of the questions I was asking, but just kind of run through the basic facts. Since 1980, when the [Department of Education] was established, it spent about $1.5 trillion of taxpayer money. divided by 35 years. That's an average about $43 billion per year. Fiscal year 2015, the appropriate amount of money was about $87 billion. (01:41–01:48)
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