Randi Weingarten
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Kids don't go through, you know, kindergarten twice or three times.
They're not five years old three times.
There's no do-overs for them.
It has a real effect.
Just so pissed that this is an administration for the rich, not an administration for America.
And working people just want a chance.
Level the playing field.
That's what the federal government's role in education was supposed to be.
So Vin, I love the fact, and we should actually tell people this, that when we started seeing basically the federal government pull away from its commitment to getting people
accurate health information.
When we started, when we said, can we do something together, particularly since the AFT is, you know, the second largest nurse union, we represent doctors now, and, you know, we represent, you know, people who work with kids all throughout America in public schools, in public services, in hospitals.
And we started this monthly, you know, work, vital lessons to try to get people accurate public health information.
And, you know, so I really have appreciated our partnership in this.
I think what happens is that, you know, and maybe this is the social studies teacher in me, it could be the labor activist in me,
When you have an administration that actually wants to change the rules of this country, to essentially undermine the freedom of people, wants to remake the country, that's what we have.
And Project 2025 told us this, but think about the lies of the administration, what Trump said.
Oh, no, I don't know anything about Project 2025.
And he has two people high in the administration who basically are the architects of Project 2025, Stephen Miller and Russell Voigt.
And so first he lied to the American people, but the American people bought what he was selling because of their anxiety, because of the fact that most people in America no longer feel like the promise of America applies to them.
So part of what we've done as a union is