Yesterday, we reported that President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

This morning, I had the chance to catch up with the only Democrat in Kentucky's federal delegation, Congressman Morgan McGarvey of Louisville, who called the decision an assault on public education.

But first, I asked him how he would describe the first couple of months of Trump's second term.

He sums it up in one word chaotic.

I think is a nice way to put it.

In fact, you mention I've been in Louisville all this week and I've been going around seeing a whole bunch of things.

I recently talked to a guy who's a financial advisor here in Louisville, and I just said, How are things for you right now?

And he said, Well, he said, you know, things aren't responding well to all of his tantrums.

And I thought that was a very diplomatic way to say what what Donald Trump is doing right now and and how things are going in Washington and how it's impacting all of us, whether it's your pension, your four, one K, your retirement savings, whether it's worried about cuts to the Department of Education, whether it's worried about cuts to the Medicaid program, which would devastate Kentucky, whether you're one of the 23,000 people who works in the bourbon industry here, who is going to bed every night, going under the tariffs on again, off again, and am I going to have a job in a couple of months?

So I think it is I think it's chaotic and and I don't think that's a good thing right now.

So let's talk about when we met on a Friday, the day after the announcement of the executive order that President Trump signed to dismantle the Department of Education, the federal Department of Education, although he even acknowledged that you can't eliminate it without an act of Congress.

And some would say if this move and the motive behind it is to get the money and the resources directly to the states that know their local school districts best.

What's wrong with that?

Look, I want our public schools to succeed every day in my legislative career in the state Senate or in Washington, I've been a champion for public schools because it's what gives our kids a shot.

It's what it's what creates that playing field that allows everybody to achieve their American dream.

You cannot trust Donald Trump on this point.

He has shown so far his willingness to completely rip up the Constitution, whether it's Article one that gives Congress that power.

And he has people around him who for years have been saying they want to get rid of the Department of Education and they want to get rid of public education.

This is not new.

Donald Trump has said he wanted to do this.

It's in Project 2025.

Now it's being met with some resistance right now.

So you're seeing them walk it back a little bit.

But I don't completely trust that they are going to keep the Department of Education intact and that they're actually going to give any savings from that directly to the states for the states to spend on public education.

This has been an assault by this administration and I think by Republicans all across the country on public education.

Linda McMahon, the wrestling executive who now is in charge of the Department of Education, has made attacks on public education and talked about putting public money into private schools without any strings attached.

We've seen in Kentucky that the Kentucky General Assembly tried to put public money into private institutions.

And what did the people of Kentucky overwhelmingly say?

They said no.

In fact, 65% of Kentuckians voted not to allow our public tax dollars to go into private schools.

In the same election that 64% of Kentuckians voted for Donald Trump.

So I think they are seeing the unpopularity of that proposal.

Now, we'll have more of my conversation with Congressman McGarvie on Monday night when I ask him about recent polling showing the Democratic Party's favorability hitting a new low and where the party can go from here.

That and much more coming up Mon