Another Slapdown for Trump as Education Dept. Is Saved

https://www.thedailybeast.com/another-slapdown-for-trump-as-education-dept-is-saved/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&via=twitter_page&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb

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  1. I see this “partial dismantling” as still a major defeat for him and it makes me happy. But still, what happens from here with funding throughout the school districts across the US? The man is still so effing insane.

  4. The department of education can get back to the three R’s!

    RASSLIN’, RASLLIN’, and RASSLIN’!

  5. His executive orders are press releases written by morons

  6. In what world is the Department of Education being gutted by actual pro wrestlers any kind of win?

    This really is a race to the bottom.

  7. I don’t know what this article says since I can’t read it. Either way I was wondering how this was legal. Plus any politician brave enough to hold town halls are getting bombarded by voters about how shitty things are. I figured this would only add to all the angry voters calling and chewing out their representatives.

  9. This admin still doesn’t realize the DOEd doesn’t set the curriculum nation wide. That’s how stupid these people are.

  10. >” Pell grants and student loans will still be run out of the Department in Washington, DC, but the great responsibility of education, educating our nation’s students will return to the states,” she added. “We are greatly reducing the scale and size of this department.”

    Not sure I’d call this being saved, but I guess beggars can’t be choosers.

  12. “A few trillion…..over the course of a few decades”.

    Idk that seems pretty reasonable over multiple decades. Also it is not the department of educations remit to educate students and determine curriculum. It’s their responsibility to ensure access for everyone and maintain standards

  13. Just to be clear, this is utter bullshit. Anyone have a kid on a 504 plan? DoEdu is the one that forces the enforcement of that. If your kid has ANY learning disabilities, they are going to be left twisting in the wind.

  14. On behalf of my two disabled kids, I’m sorry you all have to keep funding the bill to educate them and possibly provide them with a future. /s

    Honestly, i’m so tired of not knowing what the heck is going on. I’m still worried about next week, next year, etc.

  15. Don’t the states already set the curriculum? So the department of education will function as it always did and Trump will claim it as a win? Idiots….

  18. Yes! Stick it to the old orange ape!

    People keep going on about how the courts can’t enforce anything without the Marshall, but eventually all of this will get to SCOTUS. And when SCOTUS stands against tRump, the GOP politicians will start changing their tunes and stop supporting him because they will be voted out in 2026. Then things will change.

  19. >Instead, the president is expected to announce on Thursday that the department will be pared down to handle student loans and Pell grants as well as other “critical functions,” including enforcing some civil rights laws and programs for students with disabilities.

    they’re still gutting it

    and realistically the civil rights and disabilities bit will be ignored, because no one will be there to make sure it happens correctly

  20. It’s always taken a Congressional vote, but the issue with the announcement via EO empowers his goons to cut staff faster than the lawyers can law. Causing chaos before a full decision can be made.

  21. “A White House fact sheet said *former World Wrestling Entertainment boss* McMahon would be directed “to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure (of) the Department of Education and return education authority to the States”

    Emphasis mine. We’re living in the bad place.

  22. Cool so they keep the part that collects money from me but get rid of the part that educates the people. I hate this timeline so much

  23. This is the trap we fall into…believing he/they ever really intended to close the DoE. The plan, from the start, was to hobble the agency – just like they are doing to the SSA and make it appear inefficient and broken. So that in two years public sentiment changes and they manipulate people into believing it needs to be abolished due to inefficiency.

  24. “But we don’t need to be spending more than $3 trillion over the course of a few decades on a department that’s clearly failing in its initial intention to educate our students”

    Oh, but we can spend $4.5 trillion over 10 years on tax cuts for the wealthy though…

  25. >”But we don’t need to be spending more than $3 trillion over the course of a few decades on a department that’s clearly failing in *its initial intention to educate our students.*”

    Well, they don’t educate our students. That’s on the states, who are absolutely awful at spreading resources out – a part of the reason the Education Department exists, and where a lot of that money goes to fill in the gaps the poor states can’t fill.

  27. Well when you get “a small loan of a million dollars” from your daddy you can’t comprehend reality for the rest of us.

  28. In a message to Trump, Democratic Sen. Tina Smith said: “We know you’re just trying to wear us out. But for the record, I am not overwhelmed. My zone isn’t flooded. I will fight your illegal behavior until the cows come home, and I’m pretty sure the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve contacted my office since you started this nonsense are on the same page.”

    Keep it up

  30. At this point, need to start calling Americans peasants…. cos that’s how their government looks at them

  31. Poor WH service staff, gonna be a lot of ketchup to clean off the walls tonight

  32. Sure let the states run it, I mean Alabama’s doing such a bang up job even with federal money, which is over half the budget.

  33. I just read the entire article twice…. where is the “slapdown”? What is that referring to? Because I just read an article that simply described they will begin dismantling the department.

    >President Donald Trump has been forced to walk back his plans to shut down the Department of Education.

    This is the first sentence, and then they never talk about it again. What am I missing here?

  34. What’s hilarious is that so many people have no idea why Donald Trump is after the Department of Education in the first place.

    The Obama administration via the Department of Education shut down a college accreditation service that was approving for-profit diploma mills to gain undeserved credentials this giving its students (victims) access to federal college loans and grants. One of those bullshit colleges was Trump University.

    That’s right, this is all just another petty revenge ploy. Obama has lived rent-free in Trump’s head since the first correspondents’ dinner.

    How fucking pathetic is that?

  35. Title and the article don’t match up. The department is still in a bad state.

  36. I don’t understand how dismantling the education system makes America better as a country

  37. The guy clearly is a foreign asset, literally destabilizing our infrastructure.

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