The Department of Education is trending on social media and news sites following a staged photo-op where 30 outraged Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives were denied entry to the building by a security guard in Washington D.C. earlier today.
The drama at the front doors of the Dept. of Education is just one facet of a larger showdown that is looming over calls to abolish the department altogether.
According to Fox News, President Trump along with a number of Republicans have been making the case that the states are more capable of handling the task of education and that Education Secretary nominee Linda McMahon, if confirmed, may be directed via executive order to work to “put herself out of a job.”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has introduced H.R. 899, which consists of a single sentence, that would terminate the federal department of education and restore power to teachers and parents instead.
I just reintroduced H.R. 899, a one sentence bill to TERMINATE the federal department of education and return power back to teachers and parents.
This is it, the entire bill: pic.twitter.com/2dLYVE9Iwn
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 31, 2025
The text of Massie’s bill reads, “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2026.”
The bill continues to pick up cosponsors who are echoing the call that unelected bureaucrats in Washington D.C. should not be in charge of American children’s intellectual and moral development.
Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVoss, in an opinion piece for the Free Press , wrote:
A complete reset begins with ending the failed experiment resident in the Department of Education. The bureaucrats have focused on mandating DEI, when students needed the focus to be on ABC and 123. President Trump and Congress should take their corrosive power away and instead block grant all necessary education funding directly to the states.
DeVoss added that, “This reset must also ensure that no child in America is trapped in a failing school.”
The current Department of Education began operating in 1980 after being re-established by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.
The high drama outside the Dept. of Education building today may be providing Democrats an outlet for their frustration over President Trump’s determination to eliminate bureaucratic waste.
But it cannot distract from the fact that American students are performing poorly under the current federal system.
Watching these deranged people being told “No” as a complete sentence after years of their bullying is 🤌🏼 https://t.co/fzjOkA1alE
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) February 7, 2025
Just as PDJT has attempted to save women right to their own spaces, this might rescue this country’s children from the untender mercies of the teachers’ union.