Posted on 02/04/2025 9:06:19 AM PST by RandFan
Elon Musk, the tech billionaire whom President Trump has tapped as the head of his new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), boasted on his social platform X on Monday night that Trump “will succeed” in the GOP goal of dismantling the Department of Education.
“Reagan campaigned on ending the federal Dept of Education, which was created by Carter in 1979, but it was bigger when Reagan left office than when he started!” Musk said in response to a report from The Washington Post that Trump is eyeing an executive order to dismantle the agency.
“Not this time. President @realDonaldTrump will succeed,” he added.
Completely shutting down the Department of Education would require legislative action, but it is likely Trump could take some actions to hamper the agency’s power in the meantime.
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Indeed it would !
Reagan never had a GOP House of Representative. Nor the leverage to lean on the GOP members in Congress. Trump has both
I wonder if instead of “eliminating” dpt of Ed.. could he just “merge” it into HHS?
We’re off to a great day already.
I am for removing it completely.
Indeed, the Department of Education, was created by extracting education from what was then known as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
After education was pulled out of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Department was renamed the Department of Health and Human Services. So folding it back in would make some sense.
An employee at, say, the Department of the Interior would have useful things to do. Hire forest rangers, order supplies for the national parks. Stuff like that.
But I can’t think of a single useful thing an employee at the Department of Education could do. Maybe there are such things. But I can’t think of any.
If there was any reason for an Education Department it should be to set national standards for reading, math, writing, and hard science, and to monitor for failure to meet those standards. That said, that’s not what they do, and we don’t need them. Levels of education in the US have decreased precipitously, despite the Dept. of Education and the money they spend. What’s the point?
Eliminate both departments, folding any legitimate health responsibilities into the
Department of the Interior.
Back then there was a huge bank of goodwill for teachers who were seen as benevolent poorly paid, self sacrificing public servants who were preparing our children to live the American Dream
And they were for the most part.
The decline of American education standards has tracked the rise of the Dept of Education and people are sick and tired of the sickos running our education systems
I think the educational establishment siccing the FBI on parents opposed to the woke agenda was a final straw
There was never a justification for it legally. "Education" is not a Federill power under Article I Section 8.
Correct. If Trump does this, he moves to #3 on my all time great presidents list behind only George Washington and Lincoln, replacing Reagan.
We all thought if Trump undid the 4 years of the Rutabaga administration, it would be fantastic.
He’s going for the whole New Deal.
DOE next.
The one thing I don’t want to see gone is NAEP, the testing system that keeps track of K-12 educational status. That’s the main system that keeps score.
The education industrial complex tries to ignore NAEP because pretty much all their data consistently supports “conservative” conclusions.
You are joking…. Of course.
“Levels of education in the US have decreased precipitously”
And we know this because, mainly, the DepEd keeps track of this through the national NAEP system. Which you should keep.
How much is this going to save ? If Musk is serious about deficit cutting in the realm of 1-2 trillion he needs to be thinking bigger than USAID and DOE. More like 95% of discretionary spending.
I wonder if instead of “eliminating” dpt of Ed.. could he just “merge” it into HHS?
If moving it requires legislation, I’d leave it, and just strip it down to a shell that’s unrecoverable for a rat admin if they won anytime soon.
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