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Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]I ran for state Senate because our government doesn't work well. There's a lot of waste. There's a lot of bloat.

[00:00:05]And yet, the things that you're advocating about going against are what help people. Everybody here is Everybody's here because they support freedom. Cuz as you say, you want a freer market. You want a freer place.

[00:00:16]And yet, these policies are destroying the Department of Education, which I'm a teacher for, hurts our ability to take power in the marketplace. It just adds to the few rich people owning all of us. Right now in America, the top 0.01% have an average $600 million dollars of wealth. The bottom half have an average $7,000. And by destroying the Department of Education, the Center for Budget Consumer Protection Bureau, that is actively helping those rich people take all of our money.

[00:00:44]Prove me wrong.

[00:00:45]Okay. So, Trump's been president for 6 weeks. Sure.

[00:00:48]>> Right. So, we had an oligarchy as Donald Trump was becoming president. Yes. We had all these agencies. How did they prevent the oligarchy? They didn't. No, we have a bad oligarchy, but Trump is increasing our oligarchy. He had Jeff Bezos. He had Tim Cook. He had the richest people on Earth who have more money than the bottom half of the country combined sitting right behind him. And Elon Musk is helping those regulations get destroyed so they can take more power. And they donated to it.

[00:01:15]So, let's go one by >> one. Let's first go to Department of Education.

[00:01:19]So, the Department of Education, which I'm guessing you're in in favor of like $47 million going to improving learning outcomes in Asia. Yeah. Because helping other Whoa.

[00:01:29]Helping other people Excuse me. Helping other people helps us. I'm a teacher.

[00:01:34]When when other people don't match our economy, when they can't participate in it, everybody's hurt by that. So, I I do have a question, though. We're not even helping ourselves. Why should we help other countries?