Posted on 02/07/2025 9:32:43 AM PST by V_TWIN
Thirty House Democrats on Friday morning attempted to enter the Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., to meet with acting Education Secretary Denise L. Carter, but were stopped by security.
A man who said he was a federal employee did not make it clear why the lawmakers were not allowed into the building.
Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., asked the man whether he was doing so of his own volition or if he was ordered to block the door, to which the man responded that he was doing his job.
As they surrounded the man in front of the door, lawmakers repeatedly insisted that they had the right to enter the building and slammed the Trump administration over a "lack of transparency."
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Demand they be allowed into a public building? Sounds like an insurrection to me.
Isn’t there some legislation that the House Republicans could pass without them being in the People’s House?
Democrats accuse others of “lack of transparency” while they ran the largest money laundering scheme in the history of the known universe.
You cannot make up this stuff.
Another photo op. Nothing else.
Department of Education is next on the chopping block after USAID and they know it.
Sounds like they were trying to disrupt official business!!! 😡
And he didn’t even know who they were. ROTFL!
What a horrid cancer people like Maxine are to this country.
The photo/video op they wanted got short circuited. They wanted to go in and harass Linda McMahon and get it on video for the 6:00 liberal news to broadcast.....and a skinny White dude stopped it......democrats are in complete disarray and I for one am ecstatic about it!
Just hissy fit #37 of an expected 4500.
All the federal buildings in DC are secured, and have been for two decades. Have to be on the list or you don’t get in. So Maxine Waters knew in advance that she wouldn’t get in and she knows that if she done this four months ago she wouldn’t have gotten in.
With his glasses perched up on his head. He looked like a school teacher or something. He did a good job though.
The RIF process is going to be horrendous. Seniority within an agency can bump others. It is going to take some time but it didn’t take all that long in ‘94 when Clinton did it. I forgot how many were Riff’ed in the Reinventing Gooberment purges of the 90’s. It was a lot.
Transparency will be revealed sometime tomorrow, yes? RATS aren't gonna like it.
“it didn’t take all that long in ‘94 when Clinton did it.”
I know, I had 1st hand experience.....the DoD hired me in 1989 and I got caught up in that reduction in force effort.
5 years service wasn’t squat.
Never missed a day of work though......the fed gov can do anything they want.....they just have to want to. 😏
The democrats are like Vampires and are draining cash from government departments, agencies etc etc etc
6 years in the DC gulag is the normal penalty.
Hmm........DOGE should not be allowed into various federal buildings, but Democrats can enter at will.....I think not.
I like the answer that he was doing his job. A better response would have been that this is part of the Executive Branch of government and they are part of the Legislative Branch. Or, if they insist that they are citizens and have right to be in public buildings, ask them how that differs from January 6?
Commies have been indoctrinating children for YEARS to turn them into their useful idiots. Do you think these kids who walk out of class, scream about their hate of Jews and America, and protest ICE, are doing it on their own, NO of course not..their communist teachers tell them they will get extra credit if they leave class and go do it..instead of teaching kids to become productive members of society, they are teaching them to become Dem activists, which is what they want and why the left is SO outraged about DOE being closed
"As they surrounded the man in front of the door, lawmakers repeatedly insisted that they had the right to enter the building and slammed the Trump administration over a "lack of transparency.""
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Militia training issues aside, if elite, power-grabbing desperate Democrats and RINOs want transparency concerning the constitutionally undefined Department of Education, here it is!
From related threads ...
Both President Thomas Jefferson, in a State of the Union address, also Justice Joseph Story, had both indicated that the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution in order for Congress to be able to dictate, regulate, tax and spend, and otherwise stick their big noses into INTRAstate schooling, something that the states have never done!
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806." (Jefferson is indicating that Congress cannot tax and spend in the name of intrastate infrastructure imo.)
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states [emphasis added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
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