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Trump advisers weigh actions to dismantle education department – report

www.theguardian.com

Summary

Trump is considering executive actions to dismantle the Department of Education, following Elon Musk’s push to slash government spending.

Officials are discussing shutting down non-statutory functions or moving them to other agencies. Dozens of employees were placed on leave under Trump’s order banning diversity programs.

Trump, who promised to eliminate the department, awaits Senate confirmation of Education Secretary nominee Linda McMahon.

While Congress must approve agency closures, Trump’s team may replicate its aggressive approach used against USAID.

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How do we get the rest of the country to recognize what is going on here? Does no one else feel a sense of panic at what is happening here?
- We spent months trying to warn people of what would be going on here. Trump spent months promising his base that this is exactly what would be going on here. And voters said "Yes, I'd like more of that, please."
  
  Trump spent his entire campaign saying he was going to do crazy and stupid shit. He highlighted that he wanted the DOE shutdown. This is what the country voted for. I am astonished and disappointed but the truth is that the majority of Americans that voted were too dumb to care (best case) or possibly just really into fascism (possible case).
  
  No, we spent years.
  Years.
  Many have been pointing this out since 2016.
  And people went screaming back for more.
- Yes, but what can I do about it personally? You'd need a million people to march on Washington D.C. for anybody to notice at this point.
  
  Well, there's this on Wednesday https://www.newsweek.com/50-states-anti-trump-protest-nationwide-february-5-details-2025300
  Women's March is also organizing https://www.womensmarch.com/
- Not from the US but yes, a more or less constant feeling of dread since November
  
  Lucky! Somehow I feel like Iran would be more welcoming right now.
- I'm fucking terrified and am spiraling while wondering what role I'm going to play in the modern Nazi regime. I also spend a lot of time trying to distract myself.
  
  If they get what they want, it'll be magnitudes worse than the Nazis. They have mass surveillance devices absolutely everywhere, the entire world pretty much runs on American software from American tech giants, there are American military bases pretty much everywhere, etc. We're absolutely not ready for what's to come.
The Republican Party is the enemy of the people. No other way to put it.
The irony being you have to be a complete idiot to be on the side that thinks withholding, dismantling, or removing education is a good idea. Wanting to change the curriculum is one thing. Dismantling it just makes you look evil. There is no positive light you could possibly put this in.
- They've convinced a ton of people that education is an indoctrination program, especially education beyond high school. It's not hard to convince someone something is true if you blast it on their favorite news channel 24/7
  
  Also, that children don't deserve to eat if their parents can't afford it
I was homeschooled. Because my idiotic bio-mom was convinced I would be taught things that would impact my religious development(she's a psycho, and there's unfortunately much more, but I'm leaving it at "she has a life long battle with the devil and she lost."
If we allow the education department to go away there WILL be more kids like me, entering the world with no damn clue, allowed to vote and doing it based entirely off lies. I voted for Bush Jr the first time, I would never be caught dead doing that now that I have real world knowledge and experience.
The Republican's at least got it to work on me once, how well is it gonna work on your neighbors kids that don't have any friends and aren't allowed to play out of view of their parent even if it is daylight still? What happens once they are voting age?
It actually does take a village, and by killing children's education they are effectively killing the village system we have setup to ensure the children of this countries future. Reading, writing, and Arithmetic, religion has no place in your child's public education, the bible ain't gonna help them fix a copier, or solve why the printers are printing gibberish, or how to balance a budget,in fact, unless you are breading animals (which the bible oddly has specific instructions on), then the bible has NO answers. None. Vague references to situations that have little to NO bearing on the real world. It's why I can't stand people that "trust in god"... Bitch I'll trust in my my own experience and YouTube videos to show me how to exactly solve my situation, Bible ain't never had nothing on that level of usefulness, maybe propping up a table leg...
The noise is deafeningly loud, the flush of everything down the drain.

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