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So much for abolishing the Department of Education. Trump signs $200 MILLION budget increase for Dept of Ed. Budget increased by $12 BILLION over Trump's original proposed Budget.​



On the campaign trail in 2024, Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to close the Department of Education and return oversight of public schooling to the states.

Trump has a habit of throwing undercooked ideas around, but this wasn't one of them. Abolishing the Department of Education was part of the Republican Party's platform for the 2024 election, and was included in the goals of "Project 2025," the Heritage Foundation's blueprint for a conservative-controlled federal government in the wake of that election. That effort seemingly culminated with a March 2025 executive order signed by Trump that ordered Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take steps to close the department and return its functions to the states.

"I told Linda, 'Linda, I hope you do a great job in putting yourself out of a job.' I want her to put herself out of a job," Trump said at one point.

A year later, McMahon's job looks as secure as ever.

The omnibus appropriations bill that Trump signed on Tuesday to fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year directs $79 billion in taxpayer money to the Department of Education. That's a larger budget (by about $200 million) than the department had in fiscal year 2025, and it is $12 billion more than the Trump administration requested in its budget proposal for the year.

That's despite the fact that the department is in the process of offloading some of its programs to other parts of the federal government. In November, McMahon announced that the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education would be shifted to the Labor Department and the Indian Education Program would be moved to the Department of the Interior, among other things. Why does a smaller Department of Education require a bigger budget?

The bill Trump signed also includes language that prohibits parts of the department from being downsized or decentralized.

"None of the funds provided by this Act…may be used for any activity relating to implementing a reorganization that decentralizes, reduces the staffing level, or alters the responsibilities, structure, authority, or function" of the Education Department's budget office, the law reads.

The act also mandates that the department "shall support staffing levels necessary to fulfill its statutory responsibilities including carrying out programs, projects, and activities" funded by Congress.

Elsewhere, it also stipulates that "none of the funds made available in this Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality" other than the ones indicated by the appropriations. That would seem to preempt the Trump administration's efforts to offload Education Department programs to other parts of the government.

None of that sounds like abolishing the Department of Education or returning its duties to the states. Indeed, even the attempt to shuffle the department's responsibilities to other parts of the federal government may now be stymied.

In one sense, this is a story about the obvious failure of Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration to follow through on a major promise made during and after the 2024 election.

It is also an illustration of the power of teachers' unions and other aspects of the educational bureaucratic complex, which were always going to fight to keep taxpayer dollars flowing.
 
PF5 said:
Who needs dog whistles?!
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The GOP can't hide the fact they have fully embraced Racism, Racist Groups, and a Racist Identity.

If you are still supporting the GOP you are support racism. Period.....we can't pretend it isn't any more

This is a story from Yesterday

President Donald Trump’s administration won’t allow a Ku Klux Klan member convicted of murdering a civil rights leader to be labeled a racist.
To kick off Black History Month, the Trump administration has directed the National Park Service to scrub any mention of racism from the brochures and a plaque outside the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi, including removing language labeling Medgar Evers’ killer as a racist, Mississippi Today reported.
 
so the racists video is actually not that big of a deal, apparently...not much about it on the news websites and of course this...“Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.” Karoline Leavitt
 
PF5 said:
so the racists video is actually not that big of a deal, apparently...not much about it on the news websites and of course this...“Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.” Karoline Leavitt
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I keep asking for just one damn day. Today is definitely not that day.
 
GratefulPoke said:
And some people had the gall to say Trump isn't a racist. Case in point, as if we needed any additional evidence in the first place. You support Trump, you are 100% ok with racism or are a racist yourself. Period.
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sad to me cuz I now see my family in a new light...
 
Polds4OSU said:

So much for abolishing the Department of Education. Trump signs $200 MILLION budget increase for Dept of Ed. Budget increased by $12 BILLION over Trump's original proposed Budget.​



On the campaign trail in 2024, Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to close the Department of Education and return oversight of public schooling to the states.

Trump has a habit of throwing undercooked ideas around, but this wasn't one of them. Abolishing the Department of Education was part of the Republican Party's platform for the 2024 election, and was included in the goals of "Project 2025," the Heritage Foundation's blueprint for a conservative-controlled federal government in the wake of that election. That effort seemingly culminated with a March 2025 executive order signed by Trump that ordered Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take steps to close the department and return its functions to the states.

"I told Linda, 'Linda, I hope you do a great job in putting yourself out of a job.' I want her to put herself out of a job," Trump said at one point.

A year later, McMahon's job looks as secure as ever.

The omnibus appropriations bill that Trump signed on Tuesday to fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year directs $79 billion in taxpayer money to the Department of Education. That's a larger budget (by about $200 million) than the department had in fiscal year 2025, and it is $12 billion more than the Trump administration requested in its budget proposal for the year.

That's despite the fact that the department is in the process of offloading some of its programs to other parts of the federal government. In November, McMahon announced that the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education would be shifted to the Labor Department and the Indian Education Program would be moved to the Department of the Interior, among other things. Why does a smaller Department of Education require a bigger budget?

The bill Trump signed also includes language that prohibits parts of the department from being downsized or decentralized.

"None of the funds provided by this Act…may be used for any activity relating to implementing a reorganization that decentralizes, reduces the staffing level, or alters the responsibilities, structure, authority, or function" of the Education Department's budget office, the law reads.

The act also mandates that the department "shall support staffing levels necessary to fulfill its statutory responsibilities including carrying out programs, projects, and activities" funded by Congress.

Elsewhere, it also stipulates that "none of the funds made available in this Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality" other than the ones indicated by the appropriations. That would seem to preempt the Trump administration's efforts to offload Education Department programs to other parts of the government.

None of that sounds like abolishing the Department of Education or returning its duties to the states. Indeed, even the attempt to shuffle the department's responsibilities to other parts of the federal government may now be stymied.

In one sense, this is a story about the obvious failure of Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration to follow through on a major promise made during and after the 2024 election.

It is also an illustration of the power of teachers' unions and other aspects of the educational bureaucratic complex, which were always going to fight to keep taxpayer dollars flowing.
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Will be renamed department of re-education
 
Three-time Trump voter: I voted for Trump, but I really want to apologize. I'm looking at this awful picture of the Obamas. What an embarrassment to our country. All this man does is tell lies. He is not worthy of the presidency. He takes bribes blatantly, and now he's being a racist blatantly. He's pathetic as a president, and I just want to apologize to everybody in the country for supporting this rotten, rotten man.

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FactPost (@factpostnews) on Threads

Three-time Trump voter: I voted for Trump, but I really want to apologize. I'm looking at this awful picture of the Obamas. What an embarrassment to our country. All this man does is tell lies. He is not worthy of the presidency. He takes bribes blatantly, and now he's being a racist blatantly...
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BERMAN: Trump posted a video with a racist image depicting the Obamas as apes. Is that the type of message a president should send?

HARIDOPOLOS: I have not seen that video. The number one thing we have to do is elevate the conversation

BERMAN: Should he take it down?

HARIDOPOLOS: All I can control is what I can control

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Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads

BERMAN: Trump posted a video with a racist image depicting the Obamas as apes. Is that the type of message a president should send? HARIDOPOLOS: I have not seen that video. The number one thing we have to do is elevate the conversation BERMAN: Should he take it down? HARIDOPOLOS: All I can...
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Senator Tim Scott, a Trump ally, says President Trump needs to delete his Truth Social post that shows the Obamas as apes.

“It’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House,” he wrote on X.

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Stephen Anderson (@stephenreports) on Threads

Senator Tim Scott, a Trump ally, says President Trump needs to delete his Truth Social post that shows the Obamas as apes. “It’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House,” he wrote on X.
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Not spreading democracy any longer. Spreading MAGA values

US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe
State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations

 
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