OOPS: Did Schumer’s Shutdown Just DOOM Their Precious DOE? Sure Looks That Way
SNAP isn't the only department under scrutiny due to the Schumer Shutdown... The DOE is looking shaky, too
Question — if a government department’s only real job is to shuffle money to a different government department… isn’t one of those departments redundant?
That’s the rationale GOP budget-makers are waking up to at the end of this ridiculous Schumer Shutdown.
We got a real glimpse of where the money is going, and what stops working when the money gets cut off. Some of them were big things, like air traffic controllers not getting paid. No bueno.
But some of them became conversation starters for the next time Republicans have to start sharpening their pencils to get ahead of a debt that keeps going up by a trillion dollars every couple of months. And if you’re going to start cutting, why not look into one of the most politically toxic ecosystems of the entire federal swamp: the Department of Education.
Trump’s pick to oversee the DOE, Linda McMahon, has written an opinion piece that was printed in USA Today.
And her plan to eliminate the redundant parts of the DOE has nothing to do with the Chicken Little horror stories Dems wanted us to believe.
The only ones hurt by these changes are the expensive and unnecessary extra layers of bureaucracy that have been diverting funds from where they can do the most good — in the classroom itself.
Our nation just experienced the longest government shutdown in its history. The 43-day shutdown, which came smack in the middle of the fall semester, showed every family how unnecessary the federal education bureaucracy is to their children’s education. Students kept going to class. Teachers continued to get paid. There were no disruptions in sports seasons or bus routes.
The shutdown proved an argument that conservatives have been making for 45 years: The U.S. Department of Education is mostly a pass-through for funds that are best managed by the states.
That’s why, now that the government shutdown is over, we are emboldened to fulfill President Donald Trump’s promise to return education to the states.
Everything kept humming along, as if the Federal government was not the great savior and guardian of the public school system that we have been told to believe it is.
And that same commonsense thinking is turning its attention to factors that keep driving up student debt.
In higher education, we are refocusing a broken federal funding system to promote career skills that will make American workers the best in the world. Enabled by federal student lending limits that are not tied to program quality or return on investment, colleges have saddled generations of borrowers with $1.7 trillion in debt without guaranteeing a quality education.
We’re hard at work implementing the reforms Congress passed in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to fix skyrocketing tuition costs and incentivize degrees and short-term certificates that leave students better off and deliver hard skills.
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