Dusty Johnson: “First off, we should be clear that it is the law of the land in my understanding since the 1996 Welfare Act that…”

Education is power. By firing half of the workforce at the Department of Education, Trump is not only seeking to dismantle an agency — he is deliberately destroying the pathway many Americans have to a better life.

This is a dark day for the millions of American children who depend on federal funding for a quality education.

The bottom line is, as I talk to the Senator from Maryland, the way to pass this law--the way to protect Federal workers--isn't with the unanimous consent request of a bill nobody has ever seen; it is to vote for cloture on the Shutdown…

We can't touch Social Security and reconciliation. So anybody who is trying to fearmonger on that is frankly just doesn't understand what the law says. And then President Trump has made it clear, we are not going to be touching Medicare…