Why did Trump nominate a secty for Dept of Ed? I thought he was going to eliminate it. Who is going to do his voucher handout? Seems like eliminating Ed Dept is already Dead On Arrival
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Well, hubby Vince McMahon is being investigated by DOJ for years-long sexual assault and hush money payments, and Linda donated $6M to Don’s campaign so of course she will be tasked with breaking up DOE.
I had the same question. Was eliminating the department only a goal of some and not all? Or maybe were the rest unaware he was going to fill this position?
Because they're hyper competent, super high IQ people who know exactly what they're doing and in no way trapped themselves by feeding an enraged base with rhetoric that they didn't think through
The dirty little secret among so-called Red States is that a whole of children living in them attend public schools, or benefit from special programs funded by the federal department.
Someone has to dish out the dollars and they will shut it down after a couple years.
Probably needs legislative action to determine how to parse out funding.
They can't eliminate or create federal departments on a whim. That takes a Congess supermajority. However, they can reform the dept into a pile of dust ... into a dept that only funnels money to states that comply with trump and no longer controls federal regulation & policy for American education.
As a formality, perhaps. She could also prove useful to him in being the one to primarily dismantle the department on his behalf. This isn't a top issue for him.
I don't know. I wouldn't count on it being a settled matter. After all, he did his best to destroy any federal contribution to education through death by a thousand cuts under Betsy DeVos. This may pick up where she left off.
Trump cannot eliminate the Education Dept., but his choice to run it can diminish or even eviscerate it simply thru willful mismanagement or incompetence. This is our collective future.
Betsy and Elaine Chao made a shit ton of money in his 1st admin now scoffing him. Chao (Mitch’s wife) led Transportation - her family is in shipping ffs
Well you need someone to actually do the dismantling of the dept of Ed from the inside 🤷
And to claim this is dead on arrival is providing a false sense of security related to this issue which is definitely not the case.
We need to and must keep this in front of us as a HUGE issue.
They have to someone to funnel the Public Education Funds through...you know...to the segregated Private Schools and Christian Academeys. That's what its all about, picking and choosing based on the color of the skin, as to who gets indoctrinated in their Confederate Institutions.
All for show, I'm convinced. MAGA-state schools/colleges would be the biggest losers and, although MAGAs think knowledge is a waste, they don't want to give up any benefits they might already have thanks to DOE/DAg/DHHS: free lunch/breakfasts, gyms, school sports, child-care services, med clinics
The plan is to create a private system of schools funded by taxpayer money and profited by billionaires, keeping kids away from the riffraff of special ed and poor kids and brown kids. State school score cards are created by the billionaires to fool the public into believing public ed is failing.
Fortunately he needs Congress to actually do the dirty work to move the pieces around. Unfortunately he assigned someone who will trash the place first.
He needs someone to break it up and tear it down after she fully funds their Private School Choice Program. It'll be one and done, but the initial funding will be generous enough to make a long-term impact.
Since precedent and norms no longer seem to exist, shouldn't Judge Merchan schedule Trump with a 4+ year incarceration starting now? Maybe we can pull the country back from the brink, without the cult leader?
C'mon Jen, its just a distraction for those who have a functioning brain in this country. there is serious nefarious work being done behind the scene. Keep them distracted while we tie up the dirty loose ends before we enter the Oval office and dismantle all of democracy.
Process question - how do you eliminate an agency when there are laws in place that agency enforces? What happens to the laws? Do they all need to be changed by congress first? @jenrubin.bsky.social
Maybe SOMEONE of Greater Grifter Intelligence advised him the Dept. of Ed. doesn't "Educate"! But DOES Disperse THE FEDERAL MONIES to the States, So ANOTHER Pocket Book for him to Raid!!
Honestly, I don’t see that you’re wrong. But even if it all is declassified tomorrow, and broadly distributed, apparently 50% of us won’t believe it. How I wish truth could be enough.
It will tell us if Republicans on Capitol Hill are with us or with Putin. That would be useful to know. None of this will happen if we don't push for it.
Chart is from 2017 but proportionate size of the wedges is probably still representative. Fed Dept of Ed Fed employEE workforce is 4,000 so probably only about $800 Million. Smaller than the thinnest wedge in the chart. So big cuts must hit Student Financial & Sp. Ed & related VERY HARD.
D of Ed only distributes about 8% of K-12 funding, concentrated mostly for schools in poor areas. They do a lot regarding policies on loans and distributing grants. Do those just vanish if Ed is shut down?
Vouchers would be implemented at the state level. He needs someone to convince state legislators to implement vouchers to fund religious school attendance.
Let’s not forget Trump, in his first term, made Rick Perry Energy Secretary, after Perry TRIED to list Energy as one of the depts he would eliminate because he thought it had to do with environmentalism.
She is a proponent of Pell grants and pathways for alternate career-oriented and technical degree programs. This is good news. The school "choice" nonsense, not so good. But overall certainly preferable to "ED cancelled".
They might just coerce states to offer more school of choice options. To actually kill it, they would need 60 senate votes unless they eliminate the filibuster, correct?
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That’s it.
Probably needs legislative action to determine how to parse out funding.
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-It’s a game for Trump. He’s playing “Name the Least Qualified Individual for Cabinet Secretary”
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I get Collins and Murkowski as probable checks in the Senate, but beyond that...?
And to claim this is dead on arrival is providing a false sense of security related to this issue which is definitely not the case.
We need to and must keep this in front of us as a HUGE issue.
Standard question asked 100's of times a day.
Betsy DeVos was supposed to do this the first time around.
Trump can say he nominated someone and eliminated it at the same time.
Ex. You catch your partner cheating on you in the act no less and then deny it to your face.
All he does is lie.
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The devil is in the details & it’s easy to promise things one’s extremist base wants when not in power
It’s another thing to actually implement & also, most voters will hate these policies if 5% is passed