Randy Weingarten
Appearances
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2156 - Trump SLASHES AND BURNS Through Department of Education!
So we know, for example, what Texas would do. They'll use it for vouchers. So they won't give it to the kids who have it now. They'll just give it for vouchers. Catholic schools, religious schools. And frankly, what we're seeing in all the programs that are now extant in terms of vouchers, they don't work for kids. They basically go right now.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2156 - Trump SLASHES AND BURNS Through Department of Education!
it becomes a tax credit for people who already are sending their kids to private schools. So it's income redistribution.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2158 - Democrats CAVE, Trump Chalks Up Another Win!
Look, I don't know. She's only been on the job for five days. And I think she's well-meaning enough. But you can't basically cut half the people that work on these things and expect that you're going to have the grants go to schools directly. So it is basically death by 2,000 cuts.
The Megyn Kelly Show
The Case for Abolishing the Department of Education, Truth About Trump's Tariff Plan: AM Update 4/21
They're saying, oh, don't worry, let's block grant it. So we'll give it to a state education department and then let the state education department decide what to do. So we know, for example, what Texas would do.
The Megyn Kelly Show
The Case for Abolishing the Department of Education, Truth About Trump's Tariff Plan: AM Update 4/21
The end of another turbulent and volatile day in the financial markets. The sole cause of that volatility, Donald J. Trump. Markets are tumbling as investors are really digesting worse than expected tariffs.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Dismantles Ed Dept, RFK Goes After Food Chemicals, American Released: AM Update 3/21
They're saying, oh, don't worry. Let's block grant it. So we'll give it to a state education department. So and then let the state education department decide what to do. So we know, for example, what Texas would do.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 3/21/25
So when you get to education, it's like the epitome of taking away opportunity. As you said... The states run schools right now. Localities run schools right now. The federal government, the law that we did in a bipartisan way that we helped shepherd through in the last days of the Obama administration says that the Department of Education
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 3/21/25
can't do curriculum, it can't be the human resource officer of schools. It basically is there to fill in opportunity gaps and to ensure that a kid who feels schmiced, a kid who feels like there's an anti-Semitic incident that happened, a kid who is disabled or a kid with disabilities who's not getting the services,
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 3/21/25
they can go to the department of education and say help me help and and the funding and all this will be my last point the funding the funding is for poor kids The funding is for kids with disabilities. The funding is for career tech ed pathways. The funding is for kids who are trying to become English proficient. The funding is for rural kids.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 3/21/25
The funding is for kids who are going to college as the first one in their families, the first generation to go to college, and they're trying to make it work and have a little scholarship. That's why you saw that kids are basically saying, I'm having none of this because they see their futures being snatched.