Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that instructs the US education secretary, Linda McMahon, to start dismantling the Department of Education, seemingly attempting to circumvent the need to obtain congressional approval to formally close a federal department.
The administration may eventually pursue an effort to get Congress to shut down the agency, Trump said at a signing ceremony at the White House on Thursday, because its budget had more than doubled in size in recent years but national test scores had not improved.
The federal government does not mandate curriculum in schools; that has been the responsibility of state and local governments, which provide 90% of the funding to schools. Nevertheless, at the White House, Trump repeated his campaign promise to “send education back to the states”.
Every Trump announcement or headline no longer means anything to me about this orange beanbag.
Instead, every headline reflects to me just how stupid the American people are. They are literally being fleeced and sodomized by a group of idiots and they just lie there taking it all.
Many of us are calling and writing our Senators and Representatives daily and protesting often. There are protests in NYC almost every day.
They'll make protesting illegal before it changes their minds. Hope you're all planning for that.
The Constitution defines power of the President. If Trump disables the Constitution without a 2/3 state ratification, he demotes himself from POTUS to old guy who can’t take a punch.
Laws are only as good as their enforcement mechanisms. And if there are no enforcement mechanisms... well...
That's not how autocracy works, my friend.