Chalkbeat talks to Lindsey Burke from the U.S. Department of Education

Here's the thing: I am not a video watcher, but I'd recommend watching or listening to this from this afternoon

Lindsey Burke is  the deputy chief of staff for policy and programs at the Education Department. She used to work at the Heritage Foundation and she wrote the chapter on education in Project 2025. 

The reporters subsequently wrote up the interview here; if you'd like to read real time reactions, I think you can see the Bluesky thread here. My takeaway is that we actually have people running these things that think they can make two contradictory remarks and have us not notice.