President Trump on Thursday repeated his call to arm U.S. teachers with concealed firearms, saying he was prepared to seek funds for a program that would see as many as 40 percent of U.S. school staffers trained to carry weapons.

President Donald Trump: “The people that do carry, we give them a bonus. We give them a little bit of a bonus.”

Trump’s proposal drew swift condemnation from teachers and their unions. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, called President Trump’s idea “terrible.”

Randi Weingarten: “This is the man who cut $9 billion out of the federal budget for schools, who cut every single summer school program, who cut every single after-school program, who’s cut programs for art and for music, and, frankly, two days before Parkland, cut safety measures and cut mental health measure. The only people that are helped by arming teachers are the gun manufacturers and the NRA, who want to see more sales of guns.”