Bonus Pod： POTUS to the Dept of Ed ＂You're FIRED＂ plus the 'Trump' Card
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Summary
Trump signs an order to shut down the Department of Education, a major win for American consumers with gas and egg prices going down quickly, and Donald Trump introduces the Golden Visa Program to get rid of major debt issues in the country.
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Well, the only thing I totally admired about sleepy Joe Biden is the following.
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He'd go to a beach, he'd lay down in a cot, barely able to get his feet through the sand.
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And within minutes, he's sleeping and you have cameras watching him.
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You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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It's nice to have you on the 47 Morning Update.
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And there's three major stories we're dealing with.
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First up, Donald Trump to sign a major order shutting down the Department of Education.
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Also, a major win for American consumers with gas and egg prices coming down quickly.
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What caused it and will this have an effect on other products?
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And finally, Donald Trump moves to get rid of, well, major debt issues in this country
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It's the 47 Morning Update and it starts right now.
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It is another promise that Donald Trump made to the American people.
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We're going to get rid of the Department of Education because they're doing a terrible job.
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In fact, we are the lowest ranking in many categories of industrialized nations.
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And that is why Donald Trump today is going to sign an order to shut down the Department
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Now, to be clear, as the left is already fear-mongering over this, this doesn't mean that any child
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in a public school is not going to be able to go to a school.
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He's made it clear it is time to hand this responsibility back over to the states so the states can do what is
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The president also said that many of the people that are working at the Department of Education,
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well, they're not even showing up for work or doing their job at all.
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The Department of Education, maybe more so than any other place, has a lot of people that
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And if you take a look at our education process, and if you look at the charts, because they
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have numerous charts where they do the top 40, we're at number 37, 38, 39, and 40.
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And recently they hit, during Biden's last few days, they hit last.
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So they were number 40, and yet we're number one in cost per pupil.
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We're going to move the Department of Education, we're going to move education into the states
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so that the states, instead of bureaucrats working in Washington, so that the states can
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And you have Norway, you have Denmark, you have Sweden, you have various, Finland, you have
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But you also have China that does very well in education, which is a pretty big tribute
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So we think when you move it back to Iowa and Indiana and all the states that run so
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well, there's so many, I could name 30, maybe almost 40, those will be as good as Denmark,
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those will be as good as Norway, and they'll be as good as any of these, I believe they'll
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Now, then you're going to have 10 that won't be so great.
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You're going to have five that will not be good at all, but we'll work with them and
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But what we want to do is always school choice, but we're going to do school choice and we're
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doing it, but we want education to be moved back where the states run education, where
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the parents of the children will be running education, where governors that are doing a
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very good job will be running education, not run.
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I drive through the city and I see like so many buildings, Department of Education, Department
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of Big Buildings, and by the way, they're empty.
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This is why the president's saying it is time to overhaul the system and save Americans
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a ton of money and give it back to the states where they can run the system better and have
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Now, you also heard the president talk about school choice.
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It is something that he is a huge advocate for.
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Now, the order, I'm being told, from the White House directs the education secretary, Linda
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McMahon, to, quote, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department
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of Education and return education authority to the states while continuing to ensure the
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effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.
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It also mandates that any program or activities receiving remaining Department of Education funds should not advance
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The president making it clear this is about educating our kids.
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Many states move like never before to advocate for school choice.
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And if you're in favor of school choice, now is the time to go to work on your elected officials in your state,
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because this could totally transform education for countless kids all over America.
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Donald Trump promised when he was elected that he was going to do everything he could to bring prices
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that had gotten out of control back down for American consumers, for American families.
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Two of the big things that American families need is gas for their cars and eggs to feed their family.
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The average wholesale price per dozen eggs has dropped to $3.10.
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It is down 47% from $6.55 per dozen from January the 21st of this year.
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The White House has now stated the White House on March the 17th announced this drop in egg and gasoline prices,
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calling it a win for not only the Trump administration's economic agenda,
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but for the American people that have been hurting for so long.
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reaching an average high of $4.95 per dozen in January.
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And then from January of 2024 to January 2025, egg prices increased by 54%.
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Now, my primary reason for the skyrocketing prices is the avian influenza, avian flu,
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which has led to the culling of tens of millions of egg-laying hens in recent months.
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This is something that was actually talked about by the USDA Secretary Rollins in a recent interview,
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but saying that it was time for someone to take charge since the Biden administration refused to do it.
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Listen, combating the avian bird flu is not something that we can do overnight.
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But the Biden administration, this was a major problem that they had two years ago.
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So I think that it's really important to know, and for your viewers, that we are on it.
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As you mentioned, it's got five different points.
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But the really piece of, at least right now today, good news,
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is that the price of eggs seem to be coming down.
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And $1.85 per carton is not insignificant, but we've got a long way to go.
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Now, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said last month
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that more than 23 million birds were culled in January to contain the virus.
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And that followed more than $18 million in December of 2024 that were put down as well.
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Several weeks ago, the USDA also warned that egg prices could jump by more than 40% this year.
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But as you just heard there from the Agricultural Secretary,
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nothing is going to stand in the way of doing everything they can for the prices to continue to come down.
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And that is dealing with the nationwide average for gas.
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And that has declined for four straight weeks and down 42 cents from one year ago.
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The White House pointed to data showing that the average for a gallon of gas is now under $3.
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At $2.99 or less at more than two-thirds of all gas stations.
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The Trump administration has faced some blowback in recent days over its economic policies.
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The left continues to attack, particularly their tariffs,
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and the declines in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and NASDAQ.
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But the White House saying we are staying the course understanding that there is going to be tough days
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for America to have a major recorrect on pricing.
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And tariffs are going to help us get that done.
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When it comes to the issue of gasoline, the president is saying drill, baby, drill.
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Making it clear that we're not going to be held hostage by the Middle East or any other nation.
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That America has more than enough resources to take care of itself and to lower prices for all Americans.
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Yet again, another promise from the president that egg prices would come down
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and the gasoline prices will come down, paying off in the first two months in office.
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One of the core issues the president of the United States of America said he believes is his job now
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is to cut government waste, fraud, and abuse, and to deal with our out-of-control federal deficit,
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Donald Trump is also looking at ways to bring more money into the country.
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And one way he says we can do it is by having a $5 million payment to our government for a golden visa.
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He believes that this is a major opportunity for America to pay down our debt.
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Now, he was talking with Laura Ingram on Fox News Channel about these visas,
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and this is what he wanted the American people to know.
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The golden visa, which you also, you're obviously backing,
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probably is going to have to go through Congress.
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But $5 million investment from a foreigner coming into the United States.
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Why should our citizenship be purchased for any amount of money,
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especially given the fact that you're America first,
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given the types of people who have $5 million to throw down for a visa or for a permanent residency?
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Because at $5 million, you're getting a lot of things, but you're getting $5 million.
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We are now an unbelievably successful country, paying down tremendous amounts of debt.
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But if you did, think of it, if you did $5 million.
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Now, generally, people that can pay $5 million are going to be job producers, okay?
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They say, sir, we just made a deal to hire the number one student at the Wharton School of Finance
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or at Harvard Business School or anything else, or MIT or Stanford or any of it.
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But they're going to throw them out of the country the day after graduation.
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Why should an American kid become a computer scientist?
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And by the way, they're going to call it either the gold card.
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The problem is, is mini gold cards, well, I will tell you what my people want to call it.
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They want to call it the Trump card because the Trump card sells much better than the gold card.
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So you're not worried about any unsavory people coming in and taking it?
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Yeah, I'm worried about unsavory, in which case we're going to give them the money back and they get out.
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But, you know, when you're talking about a lot of people, I think it's going to be very successful.
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If somebody's wrong, we actually are very nice because it makes it a lot easier legally.
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We give them that money back and we send them out.
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The President of the United States of America is looking for new ways to bring actual cash into the United States of America from people overseas.
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In other words, he's looking at them as customers instead of all the money coming from the American taxpayer.
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As for the program and the fear mongering, many in the media are doing this.
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They're saying, what if an unsavory person comes in?
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You just heard the President make it very clear.
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Maybe we'll give them a refund and we'll move on.
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Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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