all right well thank you uh I have a stark warning for parents about what a second Donald Trump Administration would mean for our families Trump has said clearly and publicly he wants to slash education funding in half in half that sounds Unthinkable right impossible right but this isn't just Trump Bluster project 20125 shows this is something that Republicans are seriously planning for and their plans would have serious consequences project 2025 calls for ending Head Start that is a program that has given millions of parents uh a start in early childhood education it calls for Cho choking off funding for schools in our low income areas including many in our rural communities it calls for taking student lunches away from some students this is really wildly out of touch with families and out of touch with reality Republicans think rural communities need fewer teachers in public schools do Republicans think we should have less support for students with special needs do they think any parent wants to lose Head Start do they think any student wants to go to school hungry because that is what project 2025 means and that is what Trump is promising another promise and this is direct from Donald Trump himself he is going to cut off funding to schools with vaccine requirements that should raise so many alarms and so many questions why does Trump want a measles outbreak why does he want to bring back polio do we seriously think we came through a covid pandemic only for Trump to think how can we make it worse next time I mean does he even understand what he's talking about every single state in this country has Basic School vaccine requirements I will tell you as a former preschool teacher I have to say that I think a preschool student could have written a better education agenda seriously though it is unimaginable to me that we would cut our school funding in half or fire teachers or leave kids in the dust it is Unthinkable to me that we would shutter the Department of Education and tell our parents and students and teachers and schools across the country sorry you're on your own our public schools are the backbone of our country's strength and it is the foundation of our future fighting for that future fighting for our kids is what drove this mom in tennis shoes into politics and it still drives me today so I will keep speaking out loudly about how Donald Trump and project 2025 would put our kids' future in Jeopardy senator staban