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Project 2025: Trump's Legacy00:13:51
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You know, there wasn't per se a department, but the idea with Project 2025 was that the conservatives had to be ready to help the next president govern.
That, you know, as particularly independent streak that we all have in us, the conservatives have never come together as a group.
And it was really important that we put aside the petty differences and support the next president.
So what we did with standing up Project 2025 was a first of its kind, really looking at our friends on the left, looking how they always get ready and saying to the entire country, like, be ready, be prepared.
And, you know, Project, to the extent that there's a reflection of Project 2025 and what's being done by President Trump now, it's that his team is ready to roll.
And they really wanted to be prepared to hit the ground day one.
Like some on the right, severe right, came up with this Project 25, and I don't even know.
I mean, some of them, I know who they are, but they're very, very conservative, just like you have, they're sort of the opposite of the radical left, okay?
You have the radical left and you have the radical right, and they come up with this project, I don't know what the hell it is, it's Project 25.
He's involved in Project, and then they read some of the things, and they are extreme.
Well, Project 2025 does a very good treatment on USAID and really going at the heart of how this operation has been running counter to U.S. foreign interests for decades now.
It's a sieve for unaccountable money.
So what I think that they've done is really take it to another level.
It certainly flagged the issue and talked about bringing it under the aegis of the State Department.
There's going to be a vote today on Linda McMahon for Education Secretary to move her nomination out of committee to the full Senate, but a lot of discussion in her nomination hearing about reductions to the Department of Education.
Democrats concerned about shutting down the Department of Education.
What does Project 2025 say about the Department of Education?
So fast forward 40 years later, we're making the same appeal.
Look, I went to public schools K through 12.
I went on to MIT, undergrad, and graduate degrees in MIT in the University of Virginia.
My mom was a public school teacher.
My mother-in-law is a public school teacher.
You're not going to find someone who more believes in the public school system.
But I really feel it's broken.
I have four kids, and we're now having to homeschool two of them because this great system that I wouldn't be where I am today were it not for those public school teachers.
I saw so much dedication from my own mother doing this work, but the system is not working.
It needs to be put back in the control of states and localities, and the federal mandate needs to kind of relax and be much more accountable to the parents.
I just, I'm, you know, every day we wake up, it's Christmas morning.
I'm down in South Carolina.
I'm a proud citizen of South Carolina.
And I'm happy to say that there's a great buoyancy among, I think, just regular everyday Americans that President Trump is delivering on the promises.
Only a Trump, he's an iconic class.
And then when he gets into this tremendous kind of tag team duo with Elon Musk cutting through in a way that the deep state never really saw, I think it's just exciting.