The Trump-DeVos Budget: An All-Out Assault on America's Kids?

As a new federal budget is proposed, Senator Elizabeth Warren explains what might be in store for education...

0:00 so the Trop budget comes out tomorrow

0:02 but the word is already leaking out from

0:05 the Washington Post about what's in it

0:07 you're not going to believe it so I just

0:10 want to talk for a minute about a few of

0:12 the details here Trump and DeVos

0:14 remember Betsy divides the person the

0:17 Republicans confirmed to be Secretary of

0:19 Education the big complaint was that

0:22 this is a woman who does not believe in

0:23 public education well she just proved it

0:25 and that is the Trump defense budget

0:28 cuts 11 billion dollars from public

0:32 education they want to take away 22

0:36 programs that help kids K through 12

0:40 they won't take away after-school

0:42 programs gone teacher training gone

0:44 class size reduction gone school arts

0:48 programs gone physical education

0:51 programs gone foreign language programs

0:54 gone education technology mental health

0:57 services and E bullying initiatives AP

1:00 courses than the education and even the

1:06 Special Olympics this is an unbelievable

1:10 statement of where Trump and of us want

1:14 to take this country oh and there's more

1:16 there's more the trunk device budget

1:19 would totally eliminate public service

1:23 loan forgiveness that's it gone nothing

1:26 they want to slice work-study in half

1:29 steal four billion dollars from the Pell

1:32 Grant program and here's the one that

1:34 just is especially awful they want to

1:37 roll back the student loan subsidies for

1:40 low-income college students

1:41 so what's the plan of DeVos interim it's

1:45 to make student loans more expensive for

1:51 the students who have the most trouble

1:52 paying they want to make sure that more

1:55 students stay in bed even longer and pay

1:58 even more back to the federal government

2:02 here's the bottom line

2:04 the Trump devos budget would push

2:08 opportunities out of the reach

2:10 of millions of students across this

2:13 country it would ruin lives

2:16 yeah it's all about numbers but it's

2:18 also all about our values it's about

2:22 what we care about in this country and

2:25 what Trump and de Vos are saying is it's

2:28 not about public education it's not

2:30 about helping people get a college

2:32 diploma it's not about helping people

2:34 who have student loans they got to pay

2:36 off no it's up to us it is up to us to

2:41 fight back it is up to us to say no to

2:47 these budget cuts be clear you have the

2:50 power if you make your voice heard in

2:54 Washington then the Republicans cannot

2:57 get away with passing a budget like this