Democratic members of Congress hold a news conference outside the Department of Education and oppose President Donald Trump's plan to abolish it. Then they attempted to enter the Department of Education building in Washington. A person claiming to be in charge of security prevented the members of Congress from entering the building through the glass doors with "All Access Entrance" signs.
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00:00We're coming in. Don't lock the door. We're coming in. Who are you?
00:06You're not coming in.
00:07Who are you?
00:08Who are you?
00:09Who are you?
00:10Who are you, sir?
00:11Do you have business here?
00:12Yes, sir!
00:13I have sent the Assistant Secretary a letter alerting her that we would be here today,
00:20and we've asked her for a meeting.
00:23Yeah, I know that that's been accepted, sir.
00:25It doesn't need to be accepted.
00:26Who are you?
00:27What do you do here?
00:29What do you do here?
00:30I have a security responsibility.
00:31Get out of the way.
00:32We pay you.
00:33We pay for your job.
00:34We pay you.
00:35We're members of Congress.
00:36We pay you.
00:37We're members of Congress.
00:38As members of Congress.
00:39You are your children's.
00:40We haven't heard that from the Secretary.
00:41We haven't heard that from her spokesman.
00:42I'm relaying that.
00:43You are not the spokesman for the Department.
00:44You are a security guard.
00:45Can you identify yourself?
00:46We're members of Congress.
00:47Where's your badge?
00:48Where's your badge?
00:49We don't have any identification.
00:50Where's your ID?
00:51Where's your ID?
00:53We're not a threat to security.
01:01They wanted to close the Department of Education.
01:02They wanted to cut back on funding for lower-income areas through Title I.
01:03They wanted to eliminate Head Start.
01:04They want to cut back on school lunches, cut back on access to college,
01:15and we're going to make sure that they recognize that that has to go
01:19to go through Congress and through our committee.
01:22And if we can get three Republicans
01:24to join us on the committee,
01:26we can stop everything they want to do.
01:28And if it gets out of committee,
01:30we need three Republicans in the United States to join us
01:34to block what they want to do
01:36in abolishing the Department of Education.
01:39President Donald Trump has promised
01:41to abolish the Department of Education.
01:44He believes that he can do this through executive order.
01:48And we're here to remind him that he cannot.
01:51Trump and Musk have placed Doge staffers in the building
01:55where they have access to the private data
01:58of millions of students and families.
02:00Already, they have placed dozens of employees
02:04who perform vital services on which our schools,
02:08teachers, and students depend on leave.
02:12So we're here today to follow up on a letter
02:16that 95 of my colleagues and I sent this week.
02:20We asked to meet with the acting secretary,
02:23and we have yet to receive a response.
02:26We are here to ask her,
02:28will you comply with an illegal executive order
02:32to shut down the Department of Education?
02:35We will not cede the responsibility
02:38for our future generations to one man,
02:40his ideology, and his unelected lieutenants.