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Donald Trump Signed an Executive Order to Eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.
(www.whitehouse.gov)
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this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
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This dude is disgusting a traitor and by far one of the most vile men to walk this earth all he's missing is millions of dead bodies like his Nazi idol.
America is disgusting.
Where's all that talk about "my 2nd amendment rights" wake up America you're a fascist country now. Use your guns before it's too late.
In case you missed it: most of the people crying about their 2nd amendment rights and duties are the people that applaud this. The rest is aware that making use of their right would mean a civil war with former group.
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He has a few hundred thousand excess COVID deaths.
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It turns out the ones indoctrinating the kids have been the conservatives all along.
Fuck school choice vouchers.
And the voucher / charter system is exactly what evangelicals (sorry, christofascists) want, because it strengthens their Western civilization (sorry, white nationalism).
The stupidest part of all this is its going to hurt the red states the most. Blue states already have great education
You are assumng that an educated population is a goal.
Can conservatives even get more stupid?
I would have thought voting for a felon rapist traitor who gives tax breaks to the wealthy over an actual prosecutor was rock bottom.
But I guess there is no rock bottom for conservatives.
It's all to have the state gov'ts use tax money to fund religious schools.
The rock bottom is mass murder and wars that kill millions or billions — considering nukes and global warming — up to and including the extinction of the species, and death of the planet.
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The poorly educated are more susceptible to misinformation and manipulation. This will make the red states redder.
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But although Wells Fargo has more than 200,000 employees, the Department of Education has fewer than 1,500 in its Office of Federal Student Aid.
So it's more efficient than a bank, BUT needs to be run by an actual bank? How stupid does he think we are?
77,302,580 americans are that stupid...
How stupid does he think we are?
Before or after destroying the Department of Education? The entire reason behind this is that uneducated people don't know their rights or how the government works, so the GOP can run roughshod over our rights.
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Congratulations!! This means the average person in America is already too educated. Right!? Right?
Sadly... that is kinda true. Tons of jobs require a college degree that is completely unnecessary. It just a way for companies to support the schools their leadership went to. But of course, that has nothing to do with the department of education.
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So I assume all the special ed money in Red states will now just go into a slush fund to accelerate executions, and an amplification of attacks on marginalized groups instead of helping kids/families.
My God, this is beyond sad.
Well, if you don't live in a city shit is about to get bad. Public education was basically one key thing keeping the US as a first world nation.
Was on the radio, some notes:
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The responsibility of FAFSA (which is 2/3 of it's budget) likely goes to Treasury and honestly I don't think they can realistically pull that back legally, at least anytime soon. Disability funds supposedly will move somewhere too.
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The DoE itself likely will exist in the same limbo as USAID since legally it requires Congress, and judges can and will challenge illegal moves. That said, I say limbo because USAID may have got people back but empty buildings and ongoing stuff is ruined. Expect that from DoE, even though it shouldn't be allowed.
My own info, though, is they only provide public schools about 5 to 10% budget on average, and yes, it's heavily towards rural districts. This likely will have very little impact on blue states, although don't go celebrating as budgets are already tight in several places and even blue states will cut into education to fund other things like fire relief. Our Blue states are still no where near as good as many European and Asian country educational institutions.
The money from federal grants mostly goes towards vulnerable student populations like special education, English learners, and poverty. So the most vulnerable students will probably feel these cuts the most, unless states step up to address the gaps.
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But he needs Congressional approval to do so.
I'm looking forward to Schumer whipping up enough bootlickers on the dem side to pass this in the spirit of cooperation
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This isn't something Trump would even care about. He's being handled very well this time around.
Remember Rick Perry wanted to close the department of Education as well. It's been on the Republican checklist for a while now.
It’s p25.
Super embarrassing. Fucking idiots and their followers
Wow.
I looked at the articles that was expecting for that to happen today, never thought he would actually do it.
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