DOE is not controlling authority.
Your local and state taxes pay for school construction and maintenance.
Feds have no say who may or may not enter buildings..
You’re right.
Logging used to fund schools, particularly in rural areas. Clinton took care of that.
He made sure there was compensatory funding for a while so it wouldn’t dry up on his watch, but he cranked the valve. Siskiyou County in CA used to have something like 50 mills. I think there’s one peeler plant (plywood skins) in Yreka now.
Right. But I believe the Federal government ties things like highway funds to a state’s compliance with various “guidelines”.
That is, it lets the fig leaf of “state’s rights” stay in place, so you are free to do what your state wants, but when millions of dollars of federal monies are granted or denied on those choices...it isn’t really a choice for many areas.
States and localities control the schools and the buildings and who enters them but that just means ICE needs a warrant to go in which is not that hard to get. Localities might make a good show of resistance but resistance is futile and could cost them in a vast multitude of ways not the least of which is funding for virtually everything from roads, brisges, schools, police and fire services, homeless programs etc etc. Federal government doesnot have to deny anything, simply dragging their feet will do the trick. As LBJ allegedly told one Senator “That’s a nice little military base you got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to it.” It is no coincidence that NASA facilities are spread across Gulf (of America) Coast states Texas to Florida. That is ten Senate districts. LBJ knew how to get things done.