Democrat TORCHES Trump Official Over Education Cuts 😳🔥 #Trump #Education #Politics

Tell me how much, more or less, it costs to give a child free lunch at a public school.

Well, the Department of Education does not control, that's not part of our budget.

I know, but when the USDA does that funding, it's about $4 .60 for a school lunch.Do you know about how much the average school teacher makes at a public school per year?

That varies across different states, anywhere from $40 ,000 to $90 ,000.

That's right.

Yeah, that's right.

It's about $64 ,000 on average nationwide.So here's an easy one because it's all over the news.Can you tell us how much Congress is being asked to vote on next week for President Trump's ballroom?

I don't know that answer.

It's a billion dollars.And you're a businesswoman, so I'm hoping you can help me do some math here.$4 .60 for a school lunch, a billion dollars for a ballroom.Can you tell me about how many free school lunches that billion dollars could pay for?

It is my understanding on the ballroom, excuse me, and I've heard the president say this, the taxpayer dollars will not be used to build a ballroom, that they are donations from private enterprise.

So, Mr. Chairman, I'll have entered into the record some Republicans, this article from NBC yesterday, some Republicans aren't sold on $1 billion price tag for Trump's ballroom project and party line GOP bill.

Without objection?

We are voting on a billion dollars in taxpayer dollars in addition to those private donations.And so for those billion dollars in taxpayer dollars, at $4 .60 a lunch, that is 217 ,391 ,304 lunches.That's lunch for more than a million kids, a million Americans for the entire school year.But let's say that we're not going to talk about lunches because that's USDA.We can talk about teachers.At $64 ,000 a year, do we know how many

new teachers we could hire if we sent a billion dollars out to the states for reducing class sizes and hiring more teachers?I'm sure you have that number.Yes, it is 15 ,000 more teachers.Or we could pay for the Office of Civil Rights that's being cut in this budget seven times over.I think you get the point.So here's my real question here.

As Secretary of Education, Which do you think helps our nation more?Getting free lunch to more than a million more kids, 15 ,000 more teachers, or the ballroom?

I think those are incredibly weird comparisons.