You also said that eliminating the department is not about cutting federal funding for schools. Now, we have a budget request that significantly cuts funding for public schools, students and educators. Now, a few days ago, The OMB director said that impoundment is still on the table, threatening to take funding away this year. And we have your spending plan for this year. That still leaves more than $8 billion, in your own words, unallocated. Not spending these funds is the administration making a decision not to invest in our children. (00:36–00:45)
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