Arne Duncan: “Our competitors in this global economy are not cutting. In fact, they're doing the opposite.”

This is not left versus right, R versus D. This is a threat to dismantle public education and higher education in our country. And we should all be very, very scared of what could happen here.

Trump has broken that department. He's broken FSA, he's broken the Department of Education. And if something goes wrong, I desperately hope it doesn't happen. But if something goes wrong this fall with young people going back to college…

The Federal government has to step up now and do that.

The goal here is not to reopen schools, the goal is to stay open.