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Why Do Republicans Want to Dismantle the Education Department?

By Michael C. Bender | March 8, 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-republicans-educa
tion-department.html

The Republican Party has called for the shuttering of the Education Department since it first opened its doors in 1980.

Two months after the Education Department officially opened its doors in 1980, Republicans approved a policy platform calling on Congress to shut it down.

Now, more than four decades later, President Trump may come closer than any other Republican president to making that dream a reality.

Though doing away with the agency would require an act of Congress, Mr. Trump has devoted himself to the goal, and is said to be preparing an executive order with the aim of dismantling it.

Mr. Trump’s fixation has reinvigorated the debate over the role of the federal government in education, creating a powerful point of unity between the ideological factions of his party: traditional establishment Republicans and die-hard adherents of his Make America Great Again movement.

“This is a counterrevolution against a hostile and nihilistic bureaucracy,” said Christopher F. Rufo, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute think tank and a trustee of New College of Florida.

Here is how the party got to this moment.

Conservatives make their argument.

During his 1982 State of the Union address, President Ronald Reagan called on Congress to eliminate both the Energy Department and the Education Department.

Right from the start, Republicans opposed President Jimmy Carter’s signature on a 1979 law creating the department, citing beliefs in limited government control, fiscal responsibility and local autonomy.

They argued that education should be primarily managed at the state and local levels rather than through federal mandates.

A year later, Ronald Reagan won the White House, his third attempt at the presidency, thanks to a promise that he would rein in a federal government that he said had overstepped its bounds on myriad issues, including education. In 1982, Mr. Reagan used his State of the Union address to call on Congress to eliminate two agencies: the Energy Department and the Education Department.

“We must cut out more nonessential government spending and root out more waste, and we will continue our efforts to reduce the number of employees in the federal work force,” Mr. Reagan said.

He was unable to persuade Democrats in control of the House to go along with his plan, and the issue started to fade as a top priority for Republicans — but never quite disappeared.

Newt Gingrich, then the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, called for the abolition of the agency in the mid-1990s. In the 2008 Republican presidential primary, both Representative Ron Paul and former Gov. Mitt Romney supported either terminating the Education Department or drastically reducing its size.

Last year, a proposal to eliminate the agency was voted down in the Republican-controlled House despite a strong majority within the party, as 161 Republicans supported the measure while 60 opposed it.

The Education Department’s primary role has been sending federal money to public schools, administering college financial aid and managing federal student loans. The agency enforces civil rights laws in schools and supports programs for students with disabilities.

“The history of the Education Department is as a civil rights agency, the place that ensures that students with disabilities get the services they need, that English-learners get the help they need,” John B. King Jr., who served as education secretary during the Obama administration and is now chancellor of the State University of New York, told reporters on Thursday. “Taking that away harms students and families.”

Trump reinvigorates the debate.

During his 2024 campaign, President Trump adopted the concerns that grew out of the backlash to school shutdowns and other restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic.

Mr. Trump rarel

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The Good News About Trump’s Tariff Tax

March 9, 2025

Yes, it will make almost everything more expensive. But it will help Trump give millionaires and billionaires a tax cut, so it all evens out.

How great is that?

BONUS: Starving Children Are Not Our Concern — We’re Christians

The children from whom we’ve suddenly cut off aid live in “shit-hole countries.” What business is that of ours? What have they ever done for us? America First, baby. Haven’t you read the Trump Bible? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-haiti-afri
can-countries-shithole-nations-n836946

Charity has its limits.*

*In the decade leading up to his foundation being shut down for mismanagement, it distributed $19 million. “Trump admitted . . . to directing $100,000 in foundation money be used to settle legal claims over an 80-foot flagpole he had built at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, instead of paying the expense out of his pocket. In addition, the foundation paid $158,000 to resolve a lawsuit over a prize for a hole-in-one contest at a Trump-owned golf course . . .” (By contrast, Mike Bloomberg’s foundation gave away $3.7 billion last year alone. And none of it to buy a six-foot portrait of himself.)

https://andrewtobias.com/the-good-news-about-trumps-tariff-tax/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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SECOND: He's always good for hot air.

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"Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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Dude has about 300 threads he can post his neuroses in.

He hasn't figured out that manipulation by appealing to emotion doesn't work at all anymore in 2025.

We've built up an extreme tolerance to that after what the Democratic Party has done to the country and to the world.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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SECOND: If the Dem party hadn't been so evil, stabbing Americans in the back over and over and over, gaslighting us 24/7/365 about it, censoring anybody who took notice ... we wouldn't be where we are today.

Yanno, your party has been in power for 22 of the past 34 years. (And I'd say 26, bc Trump's first term was stymied in a coordinated effort by Britain and our deep state).

You had your chance. You could have done a lot of good. Instead, you promoted offshoring and deindustrialization, blew up the budget, deluged banks with trillions of dollars, presided over record disparities in wealth, deliberately divided the nation with BLM/ ANTIFA/ DEI/ LGBTQRXYZ nonsense, opened the southern border, engaged in endless wars and regime changes, and presided over "crisis" after "crisis" in a naked power grab to remove the last of our Constitutional protections.

And after ALL THAT, and installing a brain dead President, you could have changed course and offered a less smelly alternative, but instead fronted Kamala Harris?

Really???

How stupid are you?

So, you left us with the unenviable task of rooting you and your transnational oligarchs out from government, as best we can, before tackling the next task, which is tackling our native oligarchy.

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"Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND: If the Dem party hadn't been so evil, stabbing Americans in the back over and over and over, gaslighting us 24/7/365 about it, censoring anybody who took notice ... we wouldn't be where we are today.

Yanno, your party has been in power for 22 of the past 34 years. (And I'd say 26, bc Trump's first term was stymied in a coordinated effort by Britain and our deep state).

You had your chance. You could have done a lot of good. Instead, you promoted offshoring and deindustrialization, blew up the budget, deluged banks with trillions of dollars, presided over record disparities in wealth, deliberately divided the nation with BLM/ ANTIFA/ DEI/ LGBTQRXYZ nonsense, opened the southern border, engaged in endless wars and regime changes, and presided over "crisis" after "crisis" in a naked power grab to remove the last of our Constitutional protections.

And after ALL THAT, and installing a brain dead President, you could have changed course and offered a less smelly alternative, but instead fronted Kamala Harris?

Really???

How stupid are you?

So, you left us with the unenviable task of rooting you and your transnational oligarchs out from government, as best we can, before tackling the next task, which is tackling our native oligarchy.

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"Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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Signym, do you see that signature of yours? "Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

I have told you for years that the signature was wrong. Finally, you changed it. I was testing you, Signym. You proved conclusively to me that you are robot, a hollow person, an inflatable doll full of hot air, trying to pass as human and failing.

6ixStringJack also tested as a robot. There is nobody there but a machine imitating and pretending, no real purpose until its weak batteries can't be recharged and the thing goes to the dump.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Dude has about 300 threads he can post his neuroses in.

He hasn't figured out that manipulation by appealing to emotion doesn't work at all anymore in 2025.

We've built up an extreme tolerance to that after what the Democratic Party has done to the country and to the world.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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The Paranoid Style in MAGA Policy
We basically have government by QAnon

By Paul Krugman | Mar 10, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-paranoid-style-in-maga-policy

It was predictable that the co-presidency of Donald Trump and Elon Musk would eventually face a backlash. After all, Trump’s entire campaign was built on fantasy promises -- like lowering grocery prices on day one of the Administration – that he had no way and no plans to honor. Moreover, the Administration’s actual policy agenda manages to be both deeply unpopular and economically destructive.

Even so, I admit that I am surprised at how quickly the backlash has developed. Republican members of Congress, rather than face angry denunciations by their constituents, have stopped holding town halls in their home districts. Tesla dealerships across the country are beset by protests, and in some cases vandalism. Fox News and the Wall Street Journal have both turned critical as the economy and the stock market rapidly deteriorate.

Notably, America’s oligarchs have been slow to wake up and smell the outrage. Until very recently most CEOs and large investors were bullish on Trump. But Trump’s dizzyingly erratic moves on tariffs may have finally delivered the message to the oligarch class that the Musk-Trump duo have no idea what they’re doing.

You can see this dawning revelation in stock prices. Let’s be clear: The stock market is not a good measure of how the economy is doing. It is, however, an indicator of the mood of people with a lot of money to invest. Now that reality has begun to set in, the market has given up all of the “Trump bump,” the stock gains that followed Trump’s election victory:

If you ask me, the public and especially big business are still behind the curve in understanding how much damage these people will inflict. Already we have a secretary of health and human services who responds to a major outbreak of measles by suggesting we take cod liver oil, and we have an agriculture secretary who suggests that the solution to high egg prices is to raise your own chickens. Plus we’ve destroyed our alliances and are rapidly undermining our scientific and technological capacity.

As the economy stumbles and the stock market tanks, consumer confidence lags, and even some Trump voters are losing faith, what I find particularly revealing is how the Trump cabal are responding. They aren’t rethinking their policies; they aren’t even making major efforts to justify their policies to an increasingly skeptical public. Instead, they’ve instantly descended into a pit of insane conspiracy theories.

Thus, according to Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, those rowdy audiences at town halls aren’t citizens sincerely concerned about government layoffs and looming cuts to Medicaid; they’re “paid protestors” hired by “George Soros-funded groups”.

Gotta say, those Soros people are pretty impressive if they’ve managed to secretly hire fake protestors for town halls all across America.

What about those Tesla protests? According to Musk, they aren’t a response to his Nazi salutes and the chainsaw DOGE has been taking to crucial public services. In his mind they’re a conspiracy organized by five people, three of whom happen to be Jewish and two of whom happen to be dead:

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Elon Musk @elonmusk
An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla “protests”: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America.
ActBlue funders include George Soros, Reid Hoffman, Herbert

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