There's only 2600 employees at the Department of Education? (I read the article the peak was 4100.)

"She said it was the department's "final mission" to eliminate bureaucratic bloat and turn over the agency's authority to states.""

What dies that even mean, because education is already controlled by the States, and that's why education is worse in poor Red states, and poor Red states like it that way.

"Eliminate and let the Dept of the Treasury send the funds to the states."

So the states get to pick the white schools that get more money, and the black schools that get less money.

We understand that the racism is the point.

Not sure if you do, though.

"The states get the block grants and decide where the money is distributed. If they screw up school boards and state governments will get voted out."

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Libertaitan fantasy.

This is the same mindset that says we don't need an FDA, when companies sell poisoned food and people die, those companies will go out of business.

Nevermind that getting rid of the FDA is what killed those people in the first place.

It's like you don't understand cause and effect.

"Given that the statement that the state of education here in the States has not improved since the dept. of education was formed, why is it such a bad thing to cut it back?"

So like when McClellan wasn't making enough progress, Lincoln should have cut McClelllan's budget.

When the Patriots were down 28 to 3 in the 3rd quarter, Belichick should have benched Brady.

"it eliminated 426,200 federal roles between January 1993 and September 2000.

Seemed it was okay back then, so why no now..."

Because Clinton planned it carefully and did the downsizing over seven years.

Trump didn't plan at all and his Co-President Elon cancelled the Enola Gay because that program came up when he searched for "gay" programs to cancel.

The fact that you even ask what's different about layoffs planned over seven years and layoffs planned in a weekend by a ketamine junkie does not pass the smell test

You were alive during the Clinton years. You know the headlines weren't anything like what we are seeing today.

You really just enjoy being a fool. Are you one of the low IQ racial minorites?

"So YES, we need to make cuts in govt programs that are fleecing the US Taxpayers"

How about the govt program where Tesla pays no income tax. Should we be paying for that?

"You honestly don't see the difference"

He sees the difference.

He is bringing it up for no other reason than to muddy the waters.

These people just lie, and distort, and live to smell their own political farts.

They think their farts are clever too.

"Clinton's initiative, it eliminated 426,200 federal roles between January 1993 and September 2000.

Seemed it was okay back then, so why no now..."

So you are forced to pretend you can't tell the difference between doing things the right way and doing things haphazardly and illegally.

What an absolute failure of a man you grew up to be.