Posted on 04/02/2025 12:50:33 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Education Secretary Linda McMahon interrupted a press conference by House Democrats outside the Department of Education to give an impromptu statement after they met in a closed-door meeting earlier Wednesday.
With about a minute's notice, the secretary's team told some attendees that McMahon would be making a statement.
Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., was speaking at the podium as the secretary appeared at the press conference.
"We are extraordinarily grateful that the secretary gave us the space to have these conversations, but with all due respect, madam, I think my biggest concern is that the states will not be able to protect the programs and services that you would like to devolve with them," she said before ceding the microphone, noting that the mood during the meeting was "collegial."
Then, the secretary stepped to the podium in front of the group of Democratic lawmakers, who had met with her in her office for about an hour.
"I just want to express my gratitude to all of these folks who came today so we can have an open discussion about what I believe is one of the most important things that we can have a discussion on or action on in our country, and that is the education of our young people," McMahon said upon taking the podium.
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The DOE is a slush fund
Yes. . . and then . . .?
Just kinda sweet to elbow them from the lectern.
Thanks. but I don’t read nutin’ from MSN or any other alphabet soup “news”(choke) outfit.
She came from the professional wrestling management background like her husband Vince.
Suddenly bursting into the locker room or the women’s wrestling backroom conversation is something she knows well.
Dept of ed is an abysmal failure.
She’s gutting the department and moving essential functions to other departments.
Dems were not pleased.
Why should the dept of education be in the loan business when the assets needed to service those loans already exist in another agency. This duplication of effort is exactly what Trump is trying to remove.
The real problem here is gov't has no reason to be efficient. Indeed, your social status in DC is in direct proportion to the size of the workforce you control. The more lackies you control, the higher the social ladder rung you stand on. Trump is doing the exact correct thing.
“I think my biggest concern is that the states will not be able to protect the programs and services that you would like to devolve with them.”
You mean the ones run by Democrats?
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Boy these Democrat Congress freaks are just that, where do they dig up this riffraff?
Demonstrably, quantifiably, undeniably.
“Thanks. but I don’t read nutin’ from MSN or any other alphabet soup “news”(choke) outfit”
OP is ABC via MSN ...
The lefties are only happy when they get their way at the expense of other people.
The current department of education Took us down to near the bottom of the list.
What part of that are they okay with?
→→ DOE →→ NEA →→ democrats →↴
⇠ ⇠ ⇠ ⇠ ⇠ ⇠ repeat ⇠ ⇠ ⇠ ⇠ ↲
Useless excerpt. 300 words, right?
I remember Kash Patel, before taking the FBI helm, asking about the SEVEN THOUSAND FBI staff in the Federal FBI building. What do they do, all day, every day, never leaving Washington? DemocRATS like to “spread the wealth.” Patel wants to spread the FBI out to where the criminals are.
Spreading the billions and billions of DOE funds out to the States, with no insane DEI Woke crapola attached, will Make Education Great Again! Reducing central government power and coercion is always in order.
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