Trump says he will get rid of the Department of Education if elected president

[LibertyEagle]

We should get rid of the "Department of Education" ... and then replace it with a "Department of Teaching English, Math, Etc."

Exactly!! There should be 0 federal control of education. I understand his sentiment, but hopefully Rand will get in his ear and tell him it has to be pulled out by the roots. To leave any part of it would mean that even if the federal government backed off for awhile, it would quickly be right back where it is.

 

[acptulsa]

...hopefully Rand will get in his ear...

I don't think Rand can afford his ear. I think it cost Miriam Adelson about $90,000,000 to rent his ear. Rand can't outbid that.

 

[LibertyEagle]

All or nothing will get you nothing.

And he says he's sending it back to the states where it belongs:

https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1804595439142060437

Take what you can get and work for more.

It was Thomas Jefferson who said, “Let no more be said about faith in man, but bind him down from mischief with the chains of the Constitution.”

If any part of it is left, we would be back where we are, or worse, after he left office. I understand his sentiment, but this is another instance where he would be better if he understood better our founding principles. He has heard of states rights. He mentioned it in reference to abortion. Hopefully Rand will get in his ear and tell him that applies to education too. He also needs to re-read the Constitution, because nowhere in there did it give the federal government purview over education.

This shouldn’t be hard to sell. We didn’t have a Department of Education until Jimmy Carter and as I recall, we ranked higher on most any subject without it.

 

[LibertyEagle]

I don't think Rand can afford his ear. I think it cost Miriam Adelson about $90,000,000 to rent his ear. Rand can't outbid that.

Rand got in his ear quite a lot the first time and I think you know Rand didn’t spend any money to do it.

 

[acptulsa]

Rand got in his ear quite a lot the first time and I think you know Rand didn’t spend any money to do it.

I know he didn't spend any money on it. But I never saw any evidence that Trump ever listened to him. He certainly never influenced Trump on anything important, like fiscal responsibility, smaller government (when do they replace the Pentagon with a Hexagon to accommodate the treaty-violating Space Force?) or Covid (even though Rand's a doctor).

 

[acptulsa]

You don't like the ED? You want it gone? Fine. I'll change the name of it for you.

Pure Trump.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1838392824074744258

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://x.com/MadMikeOfficial/status/1854506121119076724

 

[PAF]

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1838392824074744258

If he is going to be in the administration I hope Zeldin will eliminate the FedDeptEd, and stay completely out of other areas.

Israel firster, he is awful on foreign policy and as neocon as one can be with an average Freedom Index of 65%. He also voted YES on Law Enforcement Partnership Grants which provides Federal Funding to Local LEO.

https://thenewamerican.com/freedom-index/legislator/z000017/votes/congress-117/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Zeldin

 

[Matt Collins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uakm3Z2D9yQ

 

[DamianTV]

Homeschool FTW.

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”

— Harry Truman

And it starts with Public Education where children are taught with careful hands that theres no such thing as two genders, 1 + 1 = 11, CO2 is bad, and to worship the ground that govt stands upon. Public Education DIVIDES FAMILIES by teaching children that the STATE is their family, not their mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Trump administration finalizing plans to shutter Education Department

An executive order — which President Donald Trump is expected to sign sometime this month — was expected to lay out a two-part strategy for shuttering the agency.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...g-plans-shutter-education-department-00202225

 

[TheCount]

Trump administration finalizing plans to shutter Education Department

An executive order — which President Donald Trump is expected to sign sometime this month — was expected to lay out a two-part strategy for shuttering the agency.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...g-plans-shutter-education-department-00202225

Have you already forgotten your other thread?

Donald Trump is signing executive orders (EO) faster than Joe Biden pardons his family members, and on Wednesday evening, he set his sights on education. While the president's goals are lofty, they could be huge for American children.

The "Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families" EO is all about working to ensure every child in this country has access to school choice, something several states are already focused on. It gives the secretary of Education 60 days to "issue guidance regarding how States can use Federal formula funds to support K-12 educational choice initiatives." The president claims that all parents should have a say in how their children are raised, including how they're educated.

More at: https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/...mps-latest-round-of-executive-orders-n4936496

https://www.ronpaulforums.com/showt...yone-Trump-s-Latest-Round-of-Executive-Orders



Which promise will get memory holed first? Only time will tell.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Have you already forgotten your other thread?




https://www.ronpaulforums.com/showt...yone-Trump-s-Latest-Round-of-Executive-Orders



Which promise will get memory holed first? Only time will tell.

Learn to read.
Just like I told you in the other thread, he can't shut it down completely without Congress, so he's doing as much as he can and redirecting its funds to something that helps families instead of hurting them.

 

[TheCount]

Learn to read.
Just like I told you in the other thread, he can't shut it down completely without Congress, so he's doing as much as he can and redirecting its funds to something that helps families instead of hurting them.

So he's not getting rid of it?

 

[Swordsmyth]

So he's not getting rid of it?

He's getting rid of as much of it as he can by himself, and he's creating a plan to get rid of the rest of it with Congress.

 

[TheCount]

He's getting rid of as much of it as he can by himself, and he's creating a plan to get rid of the rest of it with Congress.

So he's not getting rid of it?

 

[CaptUSA]

He's getting rid of as much of it as he can by himself, and he's creating a plan to get rid of the rest of it with Congress.

Just curious how you can tell what is an actual policy proposal versus some negotiation tactic...

Seems to me like he says one thing, gets you guys all fired up defending it, only to turn around a few days later and has you guys cheering for much, much less.

 

[Matt Collins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqJdvNsKbsU

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I'm hopeful, but I'm not holding my breath.