Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., told Newsmax Thursday he supports President Donald Trump’s decision to significantly scale back the Department of Education.

“This is what the president campaigned on,” Murphy said on Newsmax’s “National Report.” “We have poured so much money into a program that is obviously not working. I think education is best done locally. People in their cities, their towns, their counties, and their states know best how to educate their children. That’s where really the effort needs to go.”

Murphy said he believes the real decline of American education goes back to the loss of the nuclear family.

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