Tennessee Governor Bill Lee

We can spend those dollars so much more efficiently and effectively than the federal government can. And certainly, you know, taxpayer money, Tennesseans send up to D.C. and then they send back to us. If it's filtered through a bureaucracy of thousands of employees, it siphons off a large part of that tax money to support that bureaucracy before it comes back to educate our kids.

We can spend those dollars so much more efficiently and effectively than the federal government can. And certainly, you know, taxpayer money, Tennesseans send up to D.C. and then they send back to us. If it's filtered through a bureaucracy of thousands of employees, it siphons off a large part of that tax money to support that bureaucracy before it comes back to educate our kids.

You know, there's no real value add.

You know, there's no real value add.