Reagan Reese
Appearances
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
Hi, Vince. Thanks for having me.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
It's awesome. So yeah, last week, president Trump signed this long awaited executive order to start the dismantling of the department of education. And so what that does is it directs Linda McMahon to look at the department and, you know, decide what elements of it can go to other departments of the federal government.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
So it doesn't say explicitly, you know, this part, the student loan should go here. The Department of Civil Rights, the Civil Rights Office, it doesn't say where that should go. But Linda kind of gave me a sneak peek and she told me that that Civil Rights Office will probably go to the DOJ.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
And the DOJ, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, will be the ones investigating schools that violate the law, that violate Title IX, that are discriminating against students. And so she's on this mission right now to dissect the whole Department of Education while also waiting for Congress to codify the executive order and fully eliminate the Department of Education.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
Yeah, there are certain elements of the Department of Education that are established through law by Congress. And so Congress will have to act to fully get rid of the Department of Education. But something Linda told me this week, Secretary McMahon, was that she is personally lobbying senators and congressmen on the Hill to to codify this, this bill in Congress.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
And this was something, you know, Trump wasn't able to get done that first time around. And Linda, you know, less than a week later is already on Capitol Hill saying, we're getting this done. We have four years. We have the majority now. Let's do it.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
Yes. Yes. So I asked Linda McMahon, did you know that when you took this job, your end goal was to put yourself out of a job?
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
And she was like, absolutely. I was fully on board with the president's mission. Keep in mind, she was co-chair of the transition project. So, you know, she was very involved in what the president's mission was. But she said they sat down. They had a very honest conversation. He was very clear with her and said, you know, my goal is to eliminate this, to essentially put you out of work.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
And he knew she was passionate about it. He asked her if she could do it. She said yes. And so they've set out since before day one to make sure that Linda is unemployed by the end of this.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
No, the whole philosophy of closing down the Department of Education is to really give power back to the states. And these states are the closest to these children to let these states have the ultimate authority over which schools get money and how that's going to be distributed.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
Again, the funding with the Department of Education is just going to be allocated to other departments of the federal government. It's not essentially going away. Of course, DOGE is in the Department of Education, and they have made rates cuts to the Department of Education. But largely, schools are not going to feel, I think, a large impact by this being shut down.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
I know. Or I don't even know. I feel like I'm partial from this. I'm a couple years out of college. I'm, you know, this whole student loan thing. I don't know why the government is, you know, still responsible for trying to relieve some of these loans from these students.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
I think the government could spend a ton of money there.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
I did go to Hillsdale.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
So we don't take government money. I... was very fortunate to be on a partial scholarship for softball. And, but I did take out a loan from Hillsdale itself. And so I'm in debt to Hillsdale college. So the government can never bail me out of that. And I am, I wrote this actually while I was in college for the would love to pay my student debt to Hillsdale. I think it is my responsibility.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
My parents and I sat down when I was going to decide to go to Hillsdale, and they said, we're going to help you here, but you're also going to have this amount of debt left. Is this something that you feel that you can pay, that you can commit to? Because mom and dad aren't going to bail you out. And I was like, yes. And that was a commitment I made when I was 17, 18 years old.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
Yes. Yeah. It's Hillsdale is, I can speak from my personal experience. Hillsdale's, uh, inexpensive, uh, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
Thank you. Thank you.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
Thank you. Thank you.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
Overstaffing, a good example of overstaffing would be the IRS has got 1,400 people who are dedicated to provisioning laptops and cell phones. So if you join the IRS, you get a laptop and a cell phone, you're provisioned. So if each of those IRS officers or employees provisioned two employees per day, you could provision the entire IRS in a little more than a month.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
So 12 times a year, it doesn't make any sense.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
Right. The whole IRS could be handled once a month. So that doesn't make any sense.
The Dan Bongino Show
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese Joins The Show | Ep. 10 - 03/28/25
You've heard a lot of. A lot of news about RIFs, about people getting fired. At this moment in time, less than 0.15, not 1.5, less than 0.15 of the federal workforce has actually been given a RIF notice. Less than 0.15% of the federal workforce has been giving termination papers, basically.