Shadowing Practice: President Trump delivers remarks from White House Rose Garden - Learn English Speaking with Video

Let's go ahead and listen in live.

It's Donald J.

Trump.

Well, thank you very much.

What a nice setting this is.

This is something we spent a lot of time and effort making the, bringing the White House back to a level that it should be at,

for essentially 200 years.

No work was done on it.

It lived on its own merit, but we thought it was proper.

If you look at the exterior, you'll see it's all been redone and in perfect shape.

It's good for another 200 years, okay?

That's the way I look at it.

But very important such a symbol, such a representative symbol of us, of what we stand for.

And we're very proud to have done it.

We're building outside.

We're building a beautiful heliport, which has been asked for for many, many years.

A helicopter would land on wet grass, and it was bad and dangerous.

And as you know, over there, we're building a military complex and a ballroom that will be second to none anywhere in the world.

We have President Xi coming in two weeks, and I was over in China two months ago, and we saw the Great Hall of China.

Well, now we're going to have a Great Hall, too, in the United States, so it's very important, very, very important.

And I want to thank you all and welcome you to the White House as we celebrate back-to-school season in America.

It's a big deal.

We're delighted to be joined by many incredible parents, devoted teachers, exceptional educators, and star students from all across the nation.

In fact, we have so many star students.

I want to make offers to some of you to come and join us as soon as you get out of college, because we want stars.

We want smart people.

We like smart people.

Some people say, oh, that's nice to say.

No, we want smart people.

I want to thank our great Secretary of Education, a fantastic woman, by the way, my friend and all of that, but she's a fantastic woman.

Nobody like her.

Linda McMahon, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillan.

Jim, thank you very much.

Thank you.

Look good.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Thank you.

Thank you, Sarah.

Chairman of the House Education Committee, Tim Walberg.

Thank you very much, Tim.

Good job.

And our press secretary, mother of two.

And well, she decided she loved her children more than she loved Donald Trump.

I'm very upset about this.

She has to go home and spend time with her children.

That does happen on occasion with some people, when they love their children, and she does.

And Caroline, congratulations on your newborn, your perfect newborn.

And she's done a fantastic job.

She's been a great, great press secretary.

Now, if I say you're the best of all time, I have Sarah sitting here, so I'll have.

But let's put it this way.

They were both great.

OK, is that all right?

But from the very beginning of our country, Americans have understood that there's no job more important than teaching our children to become happy,

healthy, proud, productive, and flourishing citizens.

And unfortunately, in the four years I took office and since I took office, our educational system itself was really,

I mean, it was incredibly, before I got here, it was weaponized like everything else in our government.

Everything was weaponized against the goals that we all stand for.

But under the last administration, extreme ideologies such as critical race theory

and transgender insanity were forced upon our children as young as four and five years old.

Transgender didn't work.

Students were taught that our heroes, our villains, the FBI was used to target patriotic parents at school board meetings.

And meanwhile, far too many government run schools failed at the basics.

And you just have to look at the charts.

They were failing at a thing called education.

With only 30% of the students in reading and math.

That was under the last administration.

Under the Trump administration, we're systematically ending every single one of these radical left betrayals

and we're putting the parents back in charge.

They're the ones that love our children.

They're the ones that should be in charge.

So immediately upon taking office, I signed an executive order to ban critical race theory and to ban transgender ideology from public schools.

That was a big deal.

We banned men from playing in women's sports.

That was so easy to do.

I don't get it.

They're still arguing.

They're still fighting.

I saw a Democrat congressman the other day fighting an anchor, an anchor that was, I would say somewhere in the middle,

but fighting an anchor on men playing in women's sports.

And I said, I hope they keep doing that because it's got to be impossible to win a race politically.

Just crazy.

I've never seen anything like it.

But it continues out there, although we've had big court victories, as you know, and we've largely stopped it.

Every public school in America is now on notice that if they tell a child that they're trapped in the wrong body, they are committing child abuse.

And as we remove the far-left extremism from the classroom,

we're taking historic action to ensure that every child in America has access to a first-class education.

The United States spends more money on education than any other country in the world by double, and our results should be better than they are.

I would look at lists where we're rated out of the 40 top nations, we're rated number 38, 39, and number 40 with all the money we spent.

But Linda has changed that so rapidly and so drastically

and frankly it's shocking how fast it's gone under her leadership

one year ago as part of the great big beautiful bill

we passed the education freedom tax credit the largest ever expansion of school choice

and we want thank you

and we want every parent to have the power to send their child to to a high-quality school that shares their values. So important.

With us today are Caleb and Jocelyn Griffith and their beautiful family from Statesville, North Carolina.

Great place.

They've three biological sons and two foster children.

School choice and education freedom scholarships are going to give these kids more opportunity than ever before.

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And I'd like to ask Caleb and Jocelyn to come up and say a few words, please.

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How are you?

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Nice to see you.

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Thank you, President.

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Nice as my lovely family.

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Mr. President, thank you for the honor of speaking today.

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I'm Pastor Caleb Griffith, and I'm joined by my five beautiful children.

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As President Trump said, two of them came to us through foster care, wonderful but my children two or one of them has autism

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and one has developmental delays and although they qualify for an IEP

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because of the situation they were unable to get them

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so we've been unable to access the support

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and help they need to be successful

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and we're blessed to be from a state that offers school choice

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and it has helped part of our children's educational needs I

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personally have seen the benefit of the opportunity scholarship for my family and the school my children attend,

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Cornerstone Christian Academy, who is up for running for the Yaz Prize.

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But it's thanks to great organizations like Parents for Educational Freedom, who have helped 105,000 families just like mine access the Opportunity Scholarship.

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And now because of you, Mr. President, and because of you, Secretary McMahon, the Educational Freedom Tax Credits will give my children the access

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to the services they need to be successful in the most formational years of their lives.

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I want to tell you we only get one chance to educate our children and our children are the future of America.

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The Bible says to train up a child in the way

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that they should go and that's to parents and this allows parents to do that.

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So on behalf of my family and every family in America that will access this, thank you President Trump and God bless America.

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What a great job.

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Beautiful, beautiful family.

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Whoop.

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He made it.

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Well, as many of you know, no one cares more about America's children and foster youth than our great first lady.

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She works hard at it and loves it and loves the children.

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Through her fostering the Future Initiative, Melania is helping transform the lives of children

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and young people aging out of the foster care system

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and she's bringing hope and countless and you have to see

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so many people so many phone calls so much work

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but really bringing hope to countless family numbers of families

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and children and it's really something to see it's

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so difficult they go through foster care

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and then all of a sudden they're released into the world

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and you know many people have something to fall back on

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but they don't they can't go back to their parents for a little help

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or for staying overnight or for staying for years in some cases.

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And it's a very, very tough.

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So I want to thank Melania.

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She takes it so seriously.

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She's done such a great job.

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It's been so effective.

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Thank you.

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And as part of the Great Big Beautiful Bill, we have massively expanded 529 education saving accounts tremendously,

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doubling the annual withdrawal cap from K-12 expenses to $20,000 a year

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and allowing families to save the education and money for education at the private or religious school of your choice.

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So that's something that never happened before.

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Nobody could even think about doing it.

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They can't believe it's happened now.

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And it's largely Linda and her representatives that have done this.

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And now for the first time ever, families can also have their 529 accounts to support home school education.

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And then, thank you.

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And then one of the biggest things of all is what's happened with the Trump accounts, where kids will have money.

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I mean, every child is given at birth, newborn, $1,000.

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you're going to watch that money grow.

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People like Michael and Susan Dell have put up a tremendous amount of money, over $6 billion.

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But we have many people, some people have taken on an entire state like the state of Indiana by a very, very fantastic friend of mine.

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Brad, thank you very much.

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And some very wealthy people and very wealthy companies are putting up tremendous amounts of money.

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The Trump accounts is being talked about all over the world.

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It's very good and very hot.

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Joining us today, Marina and Hubert from Jacksonville, Florida.

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They've been homeschooling their three children for 11 years and will benefit enormously from the new policy.

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The amount of money they're getting is something that they can very much use, and it's something that wouldn't have happened without the Trump administration.

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So, Marina and Hubert, please Please come up and say a few words.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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Mr. President, thank you so much for this opportunity to be here.

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I have with me my beautiful family, my wife, Marina.

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We homeschool our three kids.

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We've been homeschooling for the last decade.

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My oldest son is going into ninth grade, my daughter going into sixth, and my youngest son is going into third grade.

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Homeschooling is something that is very personal to me.

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Back in 1988, my parents made the decision to homeschool me.

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And so I was homeschooled from kindergarten all the way through the 12th grade.

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And I've been blessed with the opportunity to do the same for my family.

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Back in 1988, homeschooling wasn't popular.

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And there was not, I don't think, a president who was supporting us.

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At this time, to see your administration and all that you've done for homeschooling families not only means the world to me, but to also all the other homeschooling families that are out there.

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With the great big beautiful bill, the expansion of 529, oftentimes with homeschooling or one income households because I'm working and my wife is schooling the kids.

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So being able to have the extra resources to provide them with their needs

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and also the option to support our children in the way that we see fit means the world.

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So I just want to thank you for everything that you've done.

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Great parents.

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You have great parents.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you very much.

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It's beautiful.

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Beautiful family.

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Thank you.

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Well, I'm very proud to say

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that the Trump administration has achieved more for the benefit of

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American children in less than two years than most administrations do in many years.

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Eight years are, frankly, you can take two or three administrations, put them together.

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They haven't been able to do what we did.

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After decades of racist policies and illegal quotas, we brought back the merit system into education back on the merit system,

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which is what made our country great in the first place, so that our children will always be judged by the achievements and qualifications,

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not by the color of their skin or any other reason.

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We issued a guidance for protecting the right to prayer, and we now protect prayer in the public schools.

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They're totally protected.

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And last year, I signed a historic executive order to begin the process of eliminating the federal Department of Education,

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getting them out of Washington and bringing education back to the states, the most important thing.

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And working with me on the Council on Physical Fitness, we've proudly brought back a wonderful tradition, the Presidential Fitness Test.

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I signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which people loved and the farmers love it because they know how good it is more than anybody.

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But the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, they weren't allowed to have whole milk, if you can believe it.

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They could have anything else, but they couldn't have great milk the way it is supposed to be, paving the way for more than 30 million children who drink whole milk in school.

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And we introduced the real food pyramid and reformed the vaccine recommendations to protect America's youth.

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We're making America healthy again.

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we're strongly requesting even telling people when you get your shots for your young child

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and this has to do we think with preventing autism

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that you go to the doctor for five small shots instead

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of one big massive shot you do it in five different

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shots five different shots small little shots where those beautiful little bodies can handle it

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and I think you're going to see a very big difference in the rate of autism, which is like an epidemic, what's happened with autism.

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And this year, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of America's founding,

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we're also bringing back patriotic education for our youth through the Freedom 250 Mobile Museum.

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Students from over 3,750 schools are learning about the heroes who have made America the most exceptional nation in history.

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And we're teaching our children to love America, not to hate America.

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There's a lot of love going on right now.

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Our country's never done this well.

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We have billions and billions of different things happening, money pouring in at the rate of not even billions, trillions.

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Over $19 trillion being invested in America right now.

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The last administration had less than $1 trillion in four years.

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We had 19, more than 19, 19.2 to be exact, and that's over a period of 12 months.

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We haven't even included the additional five months.

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So there's never been anything like that in history.

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No other country in the world has ever had investment like we're having right now being made, which is building factories, car plants,

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everything, all over, AI, all over the country at levels that nobody's ever seen before.

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No other country has ever seen what's happened.

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It's a revolution, a positive revolution.

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So in everything we do, we're empowering our nation's parents.

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We're restoring high standards in the pursuit of excellence.

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And we're proving that the golden age of America education is just beginning.

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And I want to thank you all for being here.

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You're incredible people.

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I know so many of you in the audience, but one in particular who's just an outstanding person and incredible woman,

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Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon.

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Please come up, Linda.

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Thank you.

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Linda McMahon, Director of Education, Linda McMahon, Director of Education, Linda McMahon.

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We'll get it down to my speed, which is always the case when I come up to the microphone, We have to adjust it.

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Thank you, Mr. President, for assembling this incredible event this afternoon, because nothing is more important in our country than educating our students.

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Parents, educators, and students, happy back to school season.

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This school year marks a return to common sense in American education, and it's all thanks to the leadership of our president, President Trump.

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I remember when President Trump called me shortly after the Biden's administration 2024 Nations Report Card, or NAEP, as you've heard,

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scores were released, and he told me he was angry and he was also embarrassed by where these scores were.

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We spoke about what a travesty it is

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that Americans have invested three trillion dollars in a federal Department of Education meant to improve student outcomes

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and yet only 30% of our students can read or do math proficiently.

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This is why President Trump demanded a hard reset to our education system and under his leadership we are are delivering it.

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We are taking very deliberate and thoughtful steps to return education to the states.

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This school year American parents and students have

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so much to be excited about because the Trump administration is steering education back to its rightful focus,

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serving students so that they are prepared for successful futures.

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Our administration has cut billions in funding for radical DEI programs and redirected those dollars to teachers,

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classrooms and results, supporting evidence-based literacy instruction, pouring record funding into charter schools and energizing workforce training.

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Key decisions that once sat with bureaucrats here in Washington, D.C are moving to where they belong, to the hands of educators,

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parents and local leaders who know these children best.

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These states now hold the first ever returning education to the state waivers, freeing over $100 million from federal micromanagement.

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These waivers allow state leaders to direct federal dollars towards what makes the most sense for their students

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and not what Washington thinks is best for those students.

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Additionally, a record 25 states are exercising edflex authority, which allows them to immediately free thousands of local school districts

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from mountains of red tape without first having to receive approval from the Department of Education.

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And under President Trump's leadership, we are restoring parents' sacred role as the first decision makers in their children's lives.

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Children belong to their parents, not the federal government.

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And through the Education Freedom Tax Credit,

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President Trump has delivered the largest national expansion of education freedom in history for over 50 million eligible children,

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giving parents unprecedented freedom to choose the path that is best for their child.

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So it's no surprise that over half of our nation's states, both red and blue, have raced to this historic choice option,

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benefiting families whether their child attends public or private school.

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Parents can also rest assured that wherever their child goes to school,

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this administration is vigorously protecting their right to know what's happening inside those walls.

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After the Biden administration allowed schools to secretly transition students without parents' knowledge,

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President Trump is defending parental rights like never before.

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At his direction, we are working hand-in-hand with the Department of Justice to ensure

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no school district ever has more power over a child than their own parents.

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Thank you.

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We've exposed states like California for some of the most widespread offenses and put schools on notice.

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If they subject children to radical experiments and sideline parents, they will lose their federal funding.

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Never before have parental rights been enforced at this scale, and parents are back in the driver's seats where they rightfully belong.

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Across every facet of education, these reforms are truly driving the progress that many promised, but only President Trump has delivered.

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We are breaking the grip of the education monopoly in D.C

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and putting the future of our children back into the hands of those who know them,

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love them, and are best positioned to help them reach their God-given potential.

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We will remember this as a turning point in our country where, thanks to President Trump's leadership,

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American education began to reclaim its place as the very best in the world.

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Thank you all and have a great and wonderful school year.

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Thank you sir.

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Nice to see you.

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Thank you.

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Well thank you very much.

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Now I don't know if anybody wants to do this

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but I'm going to be walking down here in about two minutes to meet with the people

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that are building the heliport

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and you'll see right alongside of it the great structure that's rising right next to the White House

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and that's It's going to be the ballroom slash military complex.

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It's incredible.

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Now, if anybody would like to walk with me, I don't know if Linda is going to have any big events happening now.

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I don't think so.

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But if you'd like to follow me, especially with the kids, the kids could see construction.

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I love the sound of construction.

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When I hear all that banging out there, some people say, oh, that's too bad.

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And I say, I love it.

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So if anybody would like to follow me, it'll be a large group but it's a large pad, and you'll be able to see some very hard-working people.

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They're working hard, and they're making a lot of money, and they're doing something great for America, and they've needed a heliport for many years here, and we're getting it all done.

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We're doing all the things that should have been done for years.

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So if you want to follow me with the children, I think it'll be very interesting.

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You'll bring your nice family, okay?

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Follow me.

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We'll come up here, and we'll walk down.

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Good.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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