White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted that President Donald Trump was "saving America's children" by dismantling the department responsible for their education at a federal level.
During a Thursday interview on Fox News, host Harris Faulkner claimed that Democrats were "more upset with the president" than they were poor test scores.
"President Trump is not failing America's children," Leavitt insisted. "He is saving America's children with this action that he will take later today, directing Linda McMahon, our great secretary of education, to dismantle this federal bureaucracy that has taken more than $3 trillion from the American taxpayer since its inception in 1979."
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"The president is returning education back to the people, to those closest to our students in our classrooms, and that is teachers and educators and parents who know what is best for their children," she added. "The Department of Education has never educated a child. All it has ever done is stolen money from the taxpayers for more regulation that has hurt our children's education."
