The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2156 - Trump SLASHES AND BURNS Through Department of Education!
12 Mar 2025
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Full Episode
Folks, as you know, tons going on in the news. Everything from tariff wars to the Department of Education being slashed and burned first. You've seen the headlines, I'm sure. The Daily Wire has stirred up the usual nutjob leftist voices on CNN and MSNBC talking about our new effort to attain a pardon for Officer Derek Chauvin.
No matter how much the new Trump administration works to undo the damage caused by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris over the last four years, the woke movement in American politics won't be over truly until this injustice is righted. Derek Chauvin was railroaded to appease a mob.
President Trump does have the power over the federal part of Chauvin's charges to relieve those charges, but he does need to hear. from you. Go to pardonderrick.com right now. Sign the petition. When we fight, we win. With your support, we'll do it again. All right, so President Trump is winning big victories.
His big victory of the day is slashing and burning his way through the Department of Education. So according to CNN, the U.S. Education Department announced on Tuesday it is cutting nearly 50% of its entire workforce. President Trump, of course, has proposed eliminating the agency altogether. Now, people don't seem to understand what it is that the Department of Education actually does.
They seem to believe that all public schools all over the country are paid for by the federal government. That is not true. The vast majority of public school spending is state and local spending, as it should be, because there is legitimately no reason why a taxpayer in Florida should be subsidizing the public school education of a student in California, at least in the main.
The truth is that the vast majority of spending that happens via the Department of Education is federal student aid on college loans. In other words, what you have seen is the cost of college skyrocket because of the gigantic subsidies that are paid for by your taxpayer dollars to the colleges that are then churning out good little left-wing apparatchiks.
If you look at the Department of Education by subcomponent for fiscal year 2025, what you find is by far, by far, the largest outlay is the Office of Federal Student Aid. You can see that their total budgetary obligations, $68.77 billion just on that federal student loan aid. Remember, Joe Biden wanted to radically expand that. Why? Because those are all his friends. They're all his friends.
When you talk about the pipeline of dollars flowing from permanent employees in the federal government to permanent staffers in the blue infrastructure around America, the number one place this happens is in higher education, which is in fact subsidized by the American taxpayer. It should not be. This could all be done privately. All of it. And it would be better if it were done privately.
I've made this case before. The reason it would be better is because then you would actually be forced to consider whether you need a degree in lesbian dance studies as opposed to simply taking the money from the federal government subsidized over the course of 30 years to go get a degree in lesbian dance studies. We have artificially inflated. the necessity for a degree in this country.
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