Posted on 02/09/2025 8:16:17 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand warned that the possible Department of Education eradication President Trump has alluded to will cause property taxes to spike across the state.
The Democratic duo gathered for a press meeting on the state of public education on Sunday morning days after Democratic members of Congress were denied access into the Department of Education building.
The pair expressed concern over reports that Trump is considering gutting the department through an executive order and then pushing for legislation to abolish it altogether.
As many try to wrap their heads around what exactly the elimination of the DOE could look like, Hochul noted the ripple effect it could have on New Yorkers’ taxes since states will need to find cash to make up for the loss of federal school funding.
“This is $5.5 billion that the State receives annually from the Department of Education — $3.2 billion goes directly into our budget, $2.3 billion goes to localities. If that money is jeopardized, what I can tell you will happen, localities lose that money, they will have to raise taxes,” Hochul said......
Eliminating the department would kill all programs it runs in schools, including free lunches for low-income students and the Pell Grants that fund college undergraduate attendance for roughly 7 million students annually. Some programs, however, could be moved to other agencies.
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Typical Dem, going right to raising taxes rather than trying to get rid of the bloat. So raise the property taxes, they man even change NY from Blue to Red.
Why should American taxpayers subsidize New York’s Government Indoctrination Bureaucracy?
Why should federal taxes from Florida benefit blue states?
He said that the money that the DoE sends to the states would simply be block-granted back to the states, so they won't lose that money if the Department of Education is eliminated.
-PJ
Trump can’t win New York, so WGAF.
Well he certainly said that, but we wouldn’t want to ruin a good narrative
As if they weren't plotting to do it themselves, anyway. After all, these two are Pure Taxaholic Democrats as ever I saw. ;)
/Sarcasm Off
I doubt the money will be held back, just a few conditions
thrown in to eliminate certain undesirable subjects.
Trump could block grant to local school districts on a per head basis, bypassing States.
Oh noes kids won’t be taught to hate Jews and America
“ money that the DoE sends to the states would simply be block-granted back to the states, so they won’t lose that money if the Department of Education is eliminated.”
Oh no that can’t be said.
It’s not dramatic and apocalyptic enough.
Skip the leftist controlled State education bureaucracy, block grant to school districts!
If the middleman Dept. of Education is cut out, with all its overhead, so that more money can be sent to the state, and without all the expensive DEI happy crappy, wouldn’t that mean their property taxes should decrease?
-PJ
“Hochul, Gillibrand warn NY communities will increase property taxes if Trump cuts Department of Education”
good ... let NY taxpayers pay for their own shite ...
NYC and NY State both need a DOGE asap
Not with the right software it wouldn’t.
The $5.5 Billion will block granted back with strings and guard rails
Nope. Count heads, send a $15,000 check for each. I’ve done the math. It doubles local funding.
Not with the right software it wouldn’t.
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