Trump Signs Executive Order to Shutter Department of Education

 

BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK ||| WASHINGTON, D.C.

President Trump signed an executive order which instructs the US Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, to start taking apart the Department of Education. 

This is Trump's attempt to get around the need for congressional approval to close the federal department.

In Trump's quest to reduce the size of the U.S. government, and "bring education back to the states."

“My administration will take all lawful steps to shut down the department. We’re going to shut it down and shut it down as quickly as possible. It’s doing us no good,” Trump said.

The sad fact is the majority of the education's department fund is made up of federal grants and loans - including a $18.4 billion title 1 program that gives funding to high poverty K-12 schools and 15.5 billion "idea" program to cover education costs for students with disabilities.

The democrats were quick to denounce his action. “Shutting down the Department of Education will harm millions of children in our nation’s public schools, their families and hardworking teachers. Class sizes will soar, educators will be fired, special education programs will be cut and college will get even more expensive,” Hakeem Jeffries, the US House minority leader, said in a statement.

“The reality is that the Trump administration does not have the constitutional power to eliminate the Department of Education without the approval of Congress – however, what they will do is defund and destabilize the agency to manufacture chaos and push their extremist agenda,” said the Democratic congressman Maxwell Frost.

The times are changing.