[DoodleDawg]

"I may cut Department of Education," Trump said.

He may cut it? Doesn't he know?

And when/if he does eliminate it I assume the individual states will have to make up the loss of funding for their education budgets?

[proust]

The DOE doesn’t print money, the funds don’t magically come from them.

[rockrr]

Why not? the money originates with the states anyway.

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

GO Trump!!!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I assume the individual states will have to make up the loss of funding for their education budgets?

"Education budgets" are nothing legalized extortion rackets, ripping off the taxpayers...everywhere! Most of it goes to fat salaries and benefits for overpaid do-nothing union-thug educRATs.

There are some good teachers, but many are otherwise unemployable political hacks who couldn't teach their way out of a wet paper bag....AND THEY CAN'T BE FIRED!

Ska-REW their "education budgets"!

[sitetest]

And he may not.

We'll see when he runs the NEA gauntlet. Ethanol, anyone?

[MrEdd]

I have to laugh at that inane comment.

Are you really too young to remember how these functions were performed before Jimmy Carter (whose involvement in its founding explains why it performs so poor) established the education department?

The creation of the department caused the level of spending we see now, and most spending is on that bureaucracy.