All I see is another "empty suit". What a joke. Taxpayers deserve better

Disband the Department of Education it’s worthless

The bad guys refuse to answer questions, and the good guys refuse to hold them accountable. The whole system is a sham.

My dad told me long ago that when people knowingly do something wrong, there are 2 things they do when confronted. They either lie or won’t give you an answer.

People who continue to evade questioning MUST begin to face removal from office and being barred from holding any public office in the future. The shear audacity of these unelected arrogant fools is unacceptable.

He can't give her a date because he has no intention to give her what she requested.

I believe the education system has been perverted to a point of predatory practice. Forgiveness or not, things need to change

Someone like this should be immediately fired, having the audacity to come to a court and blatantly refuse to answer basic questions is just ridiculous

How about give them no money until they give you exactly what you need. They aren’t doing it because they know you will still fund them. Defund them until all requests are filled.

Officials who behave this evasively to oversight should be charged with contempt of congress.

No wonder the average American is SO incredibly confused about EVERYTHING!

If they can't answer questions,GET RID OF THEM!

This is the problem with this country. Someone like that should be removed immediately.

It's about time that congress passed a law that actually holds anyone who refuses to answer a question or supply the data asked for to account , anyone appearing before congress who refuses to cooperate should be suspended without pay until the data requested is forthcoming

People should be compelled to answer questions frankly and without evading or filibustering lest they face consequences. Seriously, this kind of frustration should be made accountable.

God bless you Lisa and we need to get rid of these kind of managers. In fact they should be in prison in my humble opinion.

Since these people are incapable of answering a question, they need to be removed from office as mentally incompetent.

I find it amazing how every single bureaucrat just refuses to answer a direct question. Mind boggling.

It's amazing that all these bureaucrats sit there with wads of paper in front of them when they arrive but cant provide any facts, numbers or details about anything when asked. What have they got in front of them on their desks?

This not answering questions has become ridiculous. No accountability. Shameful

Every person that is unwilling to directly answer a question in the government should immediately be released. Every one of them.

Mr. Cardona is a great example of how incompetent people work.

Wow, he seriously answered all questions "very seriously", we should seriously learn from him very seriously.

HE should be fired immediately wasting tax payers money.

I Have to admit the question "what color is your suit" was a rather significant illustration of how willing he may have been to lie about the obvious.

Insane. This guy will just run the clock, and never answer ANY questions. This system needs to change.

The question made to point out that he was actively evading was also evaded. This should get this man out of a job for contempt.

Governor DeSantis recently said that if he were elected he would eliminate the Department of Education as well as some other agencies that one act alone would get my vote. Our public school system has collapsed and failed young people it totally needs to be demolished and rebuilt . And it needs to happen at the local community level neighborhoods need to form their own schools and there should never ever be such a thing as a school board again parents need to take charge of their children's education .

The department of education takes everything seriously-EXCEPT being HONEST and FORTHCOMING!

The art of being a politician, speaking a lot without saying anything

How do these people get these positions of authority.

Mind boggling

Its very obvious EVERYONE in this Administration has been explicitly coached on HOW to respond to questions and how NOT to answer the questions.

“What color is your suit?”… “ma’am I will have my office contact you with a date when we will complete our research on the color of my suit.. maybe”… government in a nutshell.

fire that guy!

Is he an education secretary? Am shocked. All these ministers who can’t answer questions with yes/no should be SACKED.

They should be able to hold people in contemp of congress or something. This is SUCH a mockery of our system.

This is how criminals operate. “I know nothing. I will circle back to you “. How disgusting is this display of obstruction

Avoiding answers should be treated as not answering the questions..

Wow!

I'm not a republican, but this current trend of public service workers, or candidates for those offices, to give non-comittal answers to questions is infuriating. Somebody pull this guy aside and tell him to answer questions or we'll find someone more competent who will.

When someone in the government says "We take this very seriously" it means they couldn't give a rat's ass about it.

Let's fire this guy and get someone who can do the job he is supposed to do.

Answer the dang question or hold him accountable/ in contempt (if that is allowed?) Good Lord, how do these people even sleep at night???!!!

Why does he feel compelled to keep saying, 'in good faith'? Impeach that clown ASAP.

I am getting so sick of these officials answering these questions with "We take these matters very seriously" instead of answering the questions. It's like a robotic response programmed into their system. 😡

I am not even from your country and i am frustrated with this guy. He shouldn't hold any position of power.

Man understood the brief: don’t EVER commit to anything!

Dodged a simple one word answer. Outrageous.

If a private sector agency was this elusive they would be fired immediately. This is insane .

Defund and abolish the Dept of Education and abolish all of its regulations.

Withhold any further funding until he gives the requested data. Period.

Loved the suit color question. Good for Rep McClain!

Can you imagine a CEO responding to his Board of Directors with answers like that? They would be fired during the meeting

It is exactly like catching a child in a lie, and they do anything to not tell the truth.

Individuals like this who refuse to answer questions, refuse to perform their duties should both be fired and fined and possibly be jailed. There MUST be accountability! At the VERY LEAST, he could give a date that he could get back with WHEN he would he would give a response and be held to it.

They should hold these people in contempt. These sort of answers are criminal, and borderline treasonous.

I absolutely LOST it when she asked him what color his suit was and he responded with some word salad non-answer lmao! Her laugh was infectious!!

Evading a question or stalling should be finned 1000$ the first time, and doubled each time they're not answering.

Ouch….

Imagine acting like this at work. This guy is smug, evasive, and totally unafraid of suffering any consequences. There needs to be serious consequences for people acting like this on our dime.

"what colour is your suit?" Absolutely brilliant! AND he still could not give a concise answer.....Loved her eloquence!

"Do you understand things yes or no?" "I'd be happy to look into that question and get back to you"

Sec. Cardona has 5 people right behind him with phones out that could simply text the person with that has the information at the end of their finger tips....if Rep McClain was SERIOUS about getting the information she could simply ask the Sec. to turn around and ask them to get the information RIGHT NOW......and i would suggest that ALL of the representatives try the same tactic regardless of party and see how much actually gets done

That's real dedication right there. He's so committed to not answering questions that he won't even say what color his suit is.

Fire him and get someone capable of answering a question. He has 4000 employees and we’re supposed to be impressed that they responded to 45 emails!?!?!? God help us!

It's like having a conversation with a tape recorder.

What he's trying to say is' just let me go back to my office, retire with my nice pension and stop asking questions! You expect me to work suddenly? Pfft

Arrest him for contempt of congress. Absolutely disgusting

Not only does the secretary owe the representative an answer, but every single taxpayer deserves answers at these hearings.

That dude needs to be fired.

Lisa McClain is a beast!

This man is the human equivalent of one of those HR papers we all get at our jobs that you never even bother reading because it's corporate fluff.

In case you wondered how bureaucrats could ruin the lives, or even end them, of people so casually during the Soviet Union's existence: they were this type of person.

Not answering congress, by an elected or appointed official ,should be immediate impeachment.

How he repeats what he's been instructed to say legally is disturbing and obvious. Yikes!

If we would write in our income tax form "I will get my team to let you know what my income is as soon as possible", I don't think the IRS would let us off the hook. But these bastards always claim they know nothing and never answer questions.

Why don’t YOU Congress lady give this evading character a deadline of “one week” to get the data to you. You have oversight of these bureaucrats and they are acting as if you do not. Your momma should have also taught you to “believe what a man does, not what a man says, especially when the two are not the same.” STOP putting up with these people.

The Department of Education needs to be Totally Defunded! It serves no useful purpose except to be a drain on the American Taxpayers.

We’re so far beyond these stupid questions. We know they’re not competent. We know they’re corrupt. Get rid of em one way or another or someone else will.

Questioning these people should be done using the washboard technique! I bet they would start answering Yes or No very quickly in between breaths!

I've never seen it offered but there must be a special course that you can take called, "How to never answer any question with a simple and understandable answer".

The “what color is your suit” question was MASTERFUL! That POS could not even answer THAT! Astonishing!

Where did this people all came from?! Hold them accountable all the way from alphabet boys to the last bureaucrat.

The USA had the best education of the world until the invention of the “ Ministry of education “.

It's funny how he mentioned "good faith" in the beginning and the followed by deflecting and not answering any questions. They should cut the budget instead of raising it. Give the money to transparent organizations.

They want a 600% increase in their budget but they cant' answer even simple questions... uh huh. They need to be defunded.

So typical - these “Public Servants” that we pay to work for us, all refuse to answer a simple question. If they refuse or can’t answer - Fire them, as they are not doing the job 5hey are hired to do, They wouldn’t last 5 minutes working at a MacDonalds Restaurant with an attitude like that. THEY NEED TO GO.

The Education Secretary didn't even know the colour of his own suite, just let that sink in.

Can't even tell the color of his suit.

Shows just how powerless our “elected” officials are.

Can we have a law that removes people from their posts who refuse to answer questions directly. PLEASE! This is like a federal disease.

IMPORTANT FACTS: Lisa McClain is a millionaire. Her home is owned by a billionaire to make it so she doesn't pay any interest to a bank on a loan. McClain has a staff member named Kathy Vertin that owns a new theater in the city of St. Clair, Michigan. Lisa McClain and the local St. Clair County Commission Chairperson named Jeff Bohm set it up so their friend Kathy Vertin does NOT pay ANY taxes for THREE DECADES for that theater! That tiny new theater does NOT bring in so much revenue to the area that it should be given any type of tax break like that! Ask Lisa McClain what she thinks about these types of tax deals and you will hear Lisa say those issues should be handled on a level that is 'local.' The part that is left out by Lisa McClain is the 'local' official is the County Commission Chairperson Jeff Bohm who held a fundraiser for Lisa McClain at the home of Kathy Vertin when McClain was running for Congress in 2020. County Commission Chairperson Jeff Bohm was even offered a job on the staff of Lisa McClain, but declined because his wife insisted that he focused on being a County Commissioner for several more years until Jeff Bohm can finally collect the County Pension.

Well, does a guilty person really want to admit they're wrong, lied, and or cheated?

This whole government needs to be stripped. Seriously. It’s beyond disgusting at this point. Our money is being pissed away.

If they won’t provide transparent answers stop providing them with funding

Politicians, speech, and you're not going to push me around.

He should not be in that job, or any job. Dishonest and corrupt doesn’t cover it ! Despicable does.

She could have asked the Education Secretary, "What mark does a student get for completely failing to answer a direct question?"

Hold them in contempt and arrest them if they won't answer.