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March 20, 2025 • 13 mins
  1. Department of Education:

    • Trump announced plans to shut down the Department of Education, criticizing its performance and advocating for education to be managed by individual states.
    • He emphasized that this move would not disrupt public schooling but would allow states to tailor education to their needs.
    • The speech highlighted poor performance rankings of the U.S. in education compared to other countries and suggested that states could manage education more effectively.
    • Trump is a strong advocate for school choice, allowing parents to choose the best educational options for their children.
    • The order directs the Education Secretary to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and ensure that remaining funds do not support DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) or gender ideology programs.
  2. Economic Measures:

    • We mention a significant drop in egg prices, attributed to efforts by the Trump administration to combat avian influenza and manage agricultural issues.
    • Gasoline prices have also decreased, with the administration promoting domestic drilling to reduce dependence on foreign oil.
  3. Golden Visa Program:

    • Trump proposed a "Golden Visa" program, where foreign investors could obtain U.S. residency by investing $5 million.
    • He argued that this would bring substantial revenue to the U.S. and attract job creators.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, the only thing I totally admired about sleepy Joe
Biden is the following. He'd go to a beach, he'd
lay down in a cut barely able to get his
feet through the sand, and within minutes he's sleeping and
you have cameras watching him. I could never do that.
I would never be able to slip like that.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good Thursday morning.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
Ben Ferguson with it's nice to have you on the
forty seven Morning Update, and there's three major stories we're
dealing with. First up, Donald Trump to sign a major
order shutting down the Department of Education. I have the
details in just a moment. Also, a major win for
American consumers with gas and egg prices coming down quickly.

(00:40):
What caused it and will this have an effect on
other products that in a moment. And finally, Donald Trump
moves to get rid of well major debt issues in
this country with the introduction of golden visas, and he
explains exactly how to work. It's the forty seven Morning
Update and it starts right now.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Story number one is another promise.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
That Donald Trump made to the American people, We're going
to get rid of the Department of Education because they're
doing a terrible job and they're not actually educating our kids.
In fact, we are the lowest ranking in many categories
of industrialized nations. And that is why Donald Trump today
is going to sign an order to shut down the

(01:21):
Department of Education. Now, to be clear, as the left
is already fear mongering over this, this doesn't mean that
any child in a public school is not going to
be able to go to a school. He's made it
clear it is time to hand this responsibility back over
to the states so the states can do what is
right for the students in their state. The President also

(01:42):
said that many of the people that are working at
the Department of Education, well they're not even showing up
for work or doing their job at all.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Take a listen.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
The Department of Educations may be more so than any
other place, has a lot of people. They can be
cut the number one not showing up to work. Number two,
they're not doing a good job. And if you take
a look at take a look at our education process,
and if you look at the charts, because they have
numerous charts where they do the top forty. We're at

(02:13):
number thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty nine, and forty. And
recently they hit during Biden's last few days. They hit last,
so they were number forty, and yet we're number one
in costs per pupil. So it's pretty bad. But we
have a dream, and you know what the dream is.
We're gonna move the Department of Education. We're gonna move
education into the states so that the states instead of

(02:37):
bureaucrats working in Washington, so that the states can run education.
And you have Norway, you have Denmark of Sweden, you
have various Finland, you have various countries that do very well.
You also have China that does very well in education,
which is a pretty big tribute to China. I must
say one point four billion, and they're in the top ten.

(03:00):
Pretty amazing. So we can't blame size anymore. You know,
normally you'd blame size. It's too big, how can you
do it? But China does it. So we think when
you move it back to Iowa and Indiana and all
the states that run so well, there's so many I
could name thirty, maybe almost forty, those will be as

(03:21):
good as Denmark. Those will be as good as Norway,
and they'll be as good as any of these. I
believe they'll be as good as any Now then you're
gonna have ten that won't be so great. You're gonna
have five that will not be good at all. But
we'll work with them and we'll get them to be good.
But what we want to do is always school choice.
But we're gonna do school choice, and we're doing it.

(03:41):
But we want education to be moved back where the
states run education, where the parents of the children will
be running education, where governors that are doing a very
good job, we'll be running education, not run I drive
through the city and I see like so many buildings,
Department of Education, Department of big buildings, the department and

(04:04):
by the way, they're empty. Nobody shows up to work.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Nobody shows up to work.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
This is why the President is saying it is time
to overhaul the system and save Americans a ton of
money and give it back to the states where they
can run the system better and have better test scores
and test results. Now you also heard the President talk
about school choice. It is something that he is a
huge advocate for. Now, the order I'm being told from

(04:30):
the White House directs the Education Secretary, Linda McMahon to quote,
take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the
Department of Education and return education authority to the States,
while continuing to ensure the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs,
and benefits on which Americans rely. It also mandates that

(04:54):
any program or activities receiving remaining Department of Education fund
should not advance DEI or gender ideology. The President making
it clear, this is about educating our kids. Now, get
ready to watch many states move like never before to
advocate for school choice. And if you're in favor of

(05:17):
school choice, now is the time to go to work
on your elected officials in your state, because this could
totally transform education for countless kids all over America.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Now story number two, Donald.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Trump promised when he was elected that he was going
to do everything he could to bring prices that had
gotten out of control back down for American consumers.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
For American families.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Two of the big things that American families need is
gas for their cars and eggs to feed their family. Well,
we now have some very big news. The average host
sale price per dozen eggs has dropped to three dollars
and ten cents. How significant is that it is down
forty seven percent from six fifty five per dozen from

(06:07):
January the twenty first of this year. The White House
is now stated The White House on March the seventeenth,
announced this drop in egg and gasoline prices, calling it
a win for not only the Trump Administration's economic agenda,
but for the American people that have been hurting for.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
So long now.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
Egg prices had soared in recent months, reaching an average
high of four dollars and ninety five cents per dozen
in January that according to the Department of Labor, and
then from January of twenty twenty four to January twenty
twenty five, egg prices increased by fifty four percent. My
primary reason for the skyrocking prices is the avian influenza

(06:48):
avian flu, which has led to the calling of tens
of millions of egg laying hens in recent months. This
is something that was actually talked about by the USDA
Secretary Kay Rowlands in a recent interview, but saying that
it was time for someone to take charge since the
Biden administration refused to do it.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
A long way to go listen. Combating the av and
bird flu is not something that we can do overnight.
It is a long term effort. But the Biden administration,
this was a major problem that they had two years ago.
They talked about it, they wrote some plans about it,
and then nothing ever happened. So I think that it
is really important to know and for your viewers that

(07:30):
we are on it. We have a major plan we've
rolled out. As you mentioned, it's got five different points,
but the really piece of at least right now today
good news is that the price of eggs seemed to
be coming down, and dollar eighty five per carton is
not insignificant, but we've got a long way to go now.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
The US Department of Agriculture said last month that more
than twenty three million birds were cold in January to
contain the virus, and that followed more than eighteen million
in December of twenty twenty four that were put down
as well. Several weeks ago, the USDA also warned that
egg prices could jump by more than.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Forty percent this year.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
But as you just heard there from the Agricultural Secretary,
nothing is going to stand in the way of doing
everything they can for the prices to continue to come down.
So Let's move to the other big issue, and that
is dealing with a nationwide average for gas, and that
has declined for four straight weeks and down forty two
cents from one year ago. The White House pointed to

(08:27):
data is showing that the average for a gallon of
gas is now under three dollars at two ninety nine
or less at more than two thirds of all gas stations.
The Trump administration has faced some blowback in recent days
over its economic policies. The left continues to attack, particularly
their tariffs and the declines in the Dall Jones Industrial

(08:49):
Average and Nasdaq. But the White House saying, we are
staying the course, understanding that there is going to be
tough days for America to have a major recorrect on price,
and tariffs are going to help us get that done.
When it comes to the issue of gasoline, the President
is saying, drill, baby, drill, making it clear that we're

(09:09):
not going to be held hostage by the Middle East
or any other nation, that America has more than enough
resources to take care of itself and to lower prices
for all Americans. Yet again, another promise from the President
that egg prices would come down and the gasoline prices
will come down, paying off in the first two months

(09:29):
in office.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
And here is story number three.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
One of the core issues the President of the United
States of America said he believes is his job now
is to cut government waste, fraud, and abuse, and to
deal with our out of control federal deficit, which is
in the trillions of dollars. Donald Trump is also looking
at ways to bring more money into the country and
one way he says we can do it is by

(09:52):
having a five million dollar payment to our government for
a golden visa. Believes that this is a major opportunity
for America to pay down our debt. Now, he was
talking with Laura Ingram on Fox News Channel about these visas,
and this is what he wanted the American people to know.

Speaker 6 (10:13):
The Golden visa, which you also you're obviously backing, probably
is going to have to go through Congress. We'll see
if they actually do that. But five million dollar investment
from a foreigner coming into the United States, why should
our citizenship be purchased for any amount of money, especially
given the fact that you're America first, Given the types

(10:35):
of people who have five million dollars to throw down
for a visa, or for a permanent residency.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
That's why, because I'm America first. Because at five million dollars,
you're getting a lot of things, but you're getting five
million dollars. Let's say we sell a million of them.
That's five trillion dollars. We are now a unbelievably successful
country paying down tremendous amounts of debt. All going to
pay down debt. We're going to have very little debt.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Separate.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
But if you did think of it, if you did
five million dollars. Now, generally people that can pay five
million dollars are going to be job producers. Okay, they're
going to be successful. They're going to produce jobs. But
here's another thing. Apple comes to me. A lot of
companies come to me. They say, sir, we just made
a deal to hire the number one student at the

(11:23):
Wharton School of Finance or at Harvard Business School or
anything else, or MIT or Stanford or anything. But they're
going to throw them out of the country the day
after graduation.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
They'll buy these.

Speaker 6 (11:37):
Why should any American kid become a company?

Speaker 1 (11:39):
And by the way, they're going to call it either
the gold card. The problem is is mini gold cards? Well,
I will tell you what my people want to call it.
It'll drive you crazy. It'll drive the left crazy. They
want to call it the Trump card because the Trump
card sells much better than the Gold card. Everybody has
a you're.

Speaker 6 (11:55):
Not worried about any unsavory people coming in and take me.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
I'm worried about unsavory, in which case we'll get it,
given the money back, and they get out.

Speaker 6 (12:02):
They'll be properly vetted.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Are they going to be properly vetted? But you know
what you're talking about a lot of people. I think
it's going to be very successful. If somebody's wrong, we
get we actually very very nice because it makes it
a lot easier legally. We give them that money back
and we send them.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Out one thanks for sure.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
The President United States of America is looking for new
ways to bring actual cash into the United States of
America from people overseas. In other words, he's looking at
them as customers instead of all the money coming from
the American taxpayer. As for the program and the fear mongering,
many in the media are doing this, they're saying, what
if an unsavory.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Person comes in.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
You just heard the President make it very clear we'll
kick him out. Maybe we'll give them a refund and
we'll move on.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
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