We have a dream, and you know what the dream is. We're going to move the Department of Education. We're going to move education into the States so that the states instead of bureaucrats working in Washington, so that the states can run education.
You're listening to a forty seven Morning Update Special Government shut down edition with Ben Ferguson.
Good Thursday morning, Ben Ferguson with you. It's nice to have you on the forty seven Morning Update. Is we have a special show for you this morning. So many of you that listen to the show want to know the facts about what the president's actually accomplishing. This is one of those special shows that I hope you will share everywhere on social media. It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now. Story number one, a government shutdown is now likely after Chuck Schumer says that
Senate Democrats will block a GOP funding bill. The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson making it very clear that the same Democrats who have always said we can never shut down the government and it hurts Americans and poor people and the world is going to end now that Donald Trump is in charge, They've decided, Nah, I we'll just throw that all out the window and go with the government shutdown just to try to hurt Donald Trump. Take a list, and the speaker in his own words.
They're planning to vote down the simple bill. They are going to try to shut the government down. Every House Democrat will participate on this. It looks like that would be a shame if it's true. I hope some of them will have a moment of clarity themselves and do the right thing. But it looks like they're going to try to shut down the government. It's a striking new posture for Democrats who have always said this has been apoplectic about the prospect of government shutdowns.
So just think for a second about what the speaker just said. It's very clear that Democrats are solely doing this for political reasons, and they want America to suffer. They want Americans to suffer because they want you to blame Donald Trump for any inconvenience or real pain that comes from a government shut down. You can also look at it this way. They're advocating for tanking the American
economy because they don't actually care about Americans. In fact, listen to the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in his own words about why they're doing it.
Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their Continuing Resolution without any input, any input from Congressional Democrats. Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified on a clean April eleventh CR that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bi partisan legislation that
can pass. We should vote on that. I hope, I hope our Republican colleagues will join us to avoid a shutdown on Friday.
Translation Chuck Schumer saying, we the Democratic Party, are holding Congress and the American people hostage because of that. As he said, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate toot quoture on the House Continuing the rest, So now it is a government shutdown that will be created solely by the Democrats, with the Republicans holding a fifty
three to forty seven advantage in the Senate. Chuck Schumer also understands that guess what, you don't always work together with the other side, because when the American people voted in Donald Trump and gave the Senate back to the Republicans and the House control in the hands of the Republicans. They didn't ask Donald Trump to quote compromise with Democrats. They said to Donald Trump, go to Washington, save us money, and go with a mandate to do what we're sending
you there to do. Now, the question is how long could this last? Only the Democrats can answer that question, as they're holding all of us hostage.
Next story number two.
Donald Trump ran on a issue that actually saw incredible engagement in the presidential election cycle. It was the issue of education. American schools are failing. In fact, we are the lowest in many categories with the rest of the world in reading and writing and arithmetic. There are quite a few failing schools virtually everywhere you go in the country,
and public education has been a disaster. We've continued to throw more money at it, and we've seen no increase on test scores or a return on our investment where students are getting better at the basics like reading, writing, and arithmetic. The President has made it clear he believes that the federal Department of Education is a disaster, something that you cannot fix. Now, let's be clear, the President's not said that we can't fix education, and he believes
it should be going back to the states. Well, the President was in an Oval Office meeting and the conversation came up about education. And here's what the President said.
They're not doing a good job. And if you take a look at take a look at our education process, and if you look at the charts, because they have numerous charts where they do the top forty, we're at number thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty nine, and forty. And recently they hit during Gend's last few days. They hit last, so they were number forty. And yet we're number one in costs for people. So it's pretty bad. But we have a dream. And you know what the dream is.
We're going to move the Department of Education. We're going to move education into the states so that the states, instead of bureaucrats working in Washington, so that the states can run education.
Now, this goes back to a basic promise that Donald Trump had made during the campaign. He believes that on the local and state level, they can run education in a much more efficient way than the federal government can. With all of the corruption in Washington, d C. Which brings me to something else. Linda McMahon, the Education Secretary, has now come out and had a major round of
layoffs gutting the Civil Rights Office as well. The Education department Civil Rights branch is losing nearly half of its staff, and the Trump administration's layoff round one effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complaints from students and families, they say, from across the nation. Among a total of more than one thy three hundred layoffs that were announced this week, roughly two hundred and forty in the Department's Office for Civil Rights were in
that group that. According to a list obtained and verified by the Associated Press, seven of the Civil Rights Agency's twelve regional offices were entirely laid off, including Busy Hobbs in New York, Chicago, and Dallas. Despite assurances that the Department's work will continue unaffected, huge numbers of cases Democrats now say appear to quote unquote being limbo. Insert fearmongering
right here. What democrats do well now? The Trump administration has not said how it will proceed with these cases being handled by its staff and many of those around them that have been eliminated. The cases will involve families trying to get school services for students with disabilities, and that is something that Trump administration has said is important.
We also know, though, that the entire Department of Education is well bloated and it's time to dismantle it piece by piece so that the President United States of America can then hand control back to the States. It's exactly what he said about Martin Luther King and his dream now, which is to give every kid a quality education and an education they can be proud of, and an education that has a return on our investment, and an education
that prepares kids for college and the future. We have far too many public schools in America, and the Presence made this clear that are handing out basically worthless pieces of paper after you quote graduate the twelfth grade, even though you're not reading at that level, writing at that level,
or doing math and science at that level. So for Donald Trump, this is another step in that promise from his campaign and a step that many parents will be happy about in States when they actually get back control of their public school system. And finally, story number three, I want to take it back back to twenty sixteen. It was the very first time that the media and Democrats used Russia to try to attack Donald Trump. You may remember the Russian collusion, Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, as
Donald Trump has said countless times with good reason. Well, now the Democratic Party is trying to use Russia again to undermine Donald Trump and his popularity, all because he wants to see a ridiculous war be ended between Russia
and Ukraine. They're trying to drive a wedge between the President and the American people, claiming that Donald Trump favors Vladimir Putin and that there's some sort of shady, corrupt business going on between the two men, which we all know is obviously a massive lie, a lie that's been
orchestrated by the Democratic Party. Well there's a new story that you probably haven't heard about, and I hope you'll take this show and share it everywhere, because what I'm about to tell you is something that literally no one is covered. Donald Trump has threatened devastating financial penalties now for Russia. I didn't say Ukraine. I said for Russia
and Vladimir Putin. President Trump on Wednesday threatened the quote devastating financial penalties for Russia if the president Vladimir Putin does not agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine that Ukraine has agreed to. Quote, there are things that wouldn't be pleasant. In a financial sense. I can do things financially that would be very bad for Russia. I don't want to do that because I want to get peace. That is what Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Quote.
In a financial sense, yes, we could do things that would be very bad for Russia. That would be devastating for Russia. But I don't want to do that because I want to see peace, and we're getting close to maybe getting something done. We got Ukraine done, and as you know, Ukraine might have been the more difficult party here. You were here a week ago when some interesting things happen. Referring to the Zolensky meeting in the Oval Office, Trump went on to say I had somebody who didn't seem
to want peace. Now he's agreed to peace. Trump also said people are going to Russia right now as we speak, and hopefully we can get a ceasefire from Russia. If we do, I think that would be eighty percent of the way to getting this horrible bloodbath to end. So the question that all of us should be looking at and asking now is this, why is the media not reporting this story? Number one and number two? A president is trying to bring peace. Why aren't they celebrating this?
Why is the world media not celebrating this? And why is it that this isn't the number one leading story on every news channel right now that the president got Zelensky agreed to peace after one week of him being in the White House angry and yelling and arguing with Donald Trump. And then the other question is this, why aren't democrats, if you really want to talk about Russian collusion? Why, and this may be the most important part, why are
they not demanding peace from Vladimir Putin? Why are world leaders not demanding peace from Vladimir Putin? Let's be clear, there is now an official deal on the table. Why is it that foreign leaders aren't walking out in front of microphones and demanding the Vladimir Putin agreed to the ceasefire deal which Zolensky and Ukraine have agreed to, And why aren't any of them talking about how quickly this deal was done by Donald Trump? Now, look, I expect
the media to hate Donald Trump. I expect many world leaders to well be jealous of him. But this should be bigger than that. This is about saving countless lives and so many families that have been destroyed in Russia and Ukraine in a sense war from the very beginning. This is what leaders do. They lead. And the sad thing is apparently in this country right now with our media.
If his name is Donald Trump and he does something incredible like work for a piece deal, they will at best say something negative about him, or maybe just not tell you the story at all.
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