OPINION: Another Republican officials have made the same claim, but the president-elect may be the one to get the work done
Donald Trump made a huge claim while campaigning that the United States Department of Education would be abolished.
The president-elect is known for getting things done, but it’s a job that other Republican officials also have attempted and failed to perform, including the classic Ronald Reagan.
During a September rally in Wisconsin, Trump told citizens his administration does “ultimately remove the national Department of Education”, CNN reported.
Trump declared,” We will drain the government education swamp and stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth with all kinds of things you do n’t want our youth hearing.”
The governmental agency is enormous. It began in 1980 under President Jimmy Carter, and now employs more than 4, 000 people with an annual budget of about$ 80 billion, according to Inside Higher Ed.
The department is in charge of laws that allow female runners who identify as transgender to engage in children’s collegiate sports, among other things. Financial support and student loans for college students are also handled by the ministry.
Eliminating it is a huge job. According to the statement:
]F ] ew higher education plan experts believe the district’s days are truly numbered. They point out that even Trump, in his first term, opposed abolishing the company, otherwise proposing to combine the Departments of Education and Labor. However, since 2016, there has been more interest in the concept, and Trump has increased his concern.
Conventional organizations have presented some proposals for how to destroy the department more fully this time around, such as shifting the federal student loan applications to the Treasury Department. ( Project 2025, led by the conservative Heritage Foundation, offers a blueprint for overhauling the federal government in Trump’s second term. ) …
In general, reviewers warn that the demise of the Education Department might make it harder for students to obtain federal financial aid, put pressure on institutions that rely on federal funding, and raise the risk of higher education, even though that’s a worst-case situation.
A lack of people and U.S. Congressional assistance may also get in the way.
As The Economist reported next year:
Congress would need to work to genuinely end the ED and its functions. That probably wo n’t happen. In 1985, Reagan made the same realization. He stated that he had no intention of recommending the department’s removal to the Congress at this time, citing [the department’s ] lack of support in Congress as justification.
Mr Trump, if re-elected, may likely encounter the same problem. In general, Americans want to bank public education. Although 60 % of adults ( and 88 % of Republicans ) think that the government is spending too much, 65 % of adults ( and 52 % of Republicans ) say it is spending too little on education. And even if he may get help from the US Congress, abolishing the ED would not have an impact on what kids study every day.
But there are solid conservative accents advocating for the agency’s repeal. According to Jonathan Butcher of The Heritage Foundation, the organization is “promulgating policies that are either ineffective or illegal ( or both ).”
He just wrote in a statement for Newsweek,” It would be a success for people and students to stop the company’s losing streak by closing it down.”
In a 2020 review for Heritage, Butcher recommended that the district’s 100-plus programs been cut to about two hundred and given to various agencies to handle. For instance, the Office for Civil Rights could be under the control of the Department of Justice.
Some calling for the agency’s abolishing include Tim Sheehy, the probable winner of a contested U. S. Senate contest in Montana, Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie, and entrepreneur-turned political candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
Sensitivity to how cutting the department may reduce the federal deficit, end child indoctrination, and protect women’s sports, as well as regaining control of state and local governments where Americans have more say, could help influence minds.
Some thought Roe v. Wade had been overturned, and that happened under Trump’s previous supervision.  , It’s not an easy process, but the business and president-elect really may be the one to finally get the job done.
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