No. of Recommendations: 3
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-adminis...But of course he is. "Promises made..." blah-blah-blah¹. And Trump has said he loves the poorly educated!
Trump administration finalizing plans to shutter Education DepartmentThe Trump administration is finalizing plans to dismantle the Education Department through an executive order that would build on the president’s campaign promise to hammer the longtime conservative target.
The order — which President Donald Trump is expected to sign sometime this month, according to a White House official — was expected to lay out a two-part strategy for shuttering the agency, according to two people familiar with the plans and granted anonymity to discuss them.
It would direct the department to craft a plan to wind down its functions using its existing administrative authority. But the order was also expected to call for the agency to inventory a complex set of laws needed to delegate the department’s powers to other agencies and then close the department, an acknowledgment that some of conservatives’ biggest desires for change hinge on congressional approval. Such an order would launch a complex initiative. Some conservatives concede they currently lack enough support for legislation to close the department and farm its core functions out to other federal agencies.
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1 - All these kept promises has me worried. It really does seem like he's laying the groundwork for a third term. Otherwise, he wouldn't care much about honoring past promises.
No. of Recommendations: 7
I got to work with a lot of really good lawyers in my DoD arc. One of them, we'll call him Isaac, headed an admin law arm that I interfaced with for items of gravity. I asked him about succession and those who denied reality. I can neither confirm nor deny that this was about 4.1 years ago...this is of course purely hypothetical.
Isaac sent me a paper from I think Columbia Law Review. There's a surprising number/high % of times that "modern" countries have leaders that don't want to cede power when they either lose an election or come up on term limits. We might engage in pearl-clutching or outrage, but it simply isn't that rare. And we all better act like this could happen in the US.
Frankly, the Department of Education really doesn't have much to show for its roughly half century history. We're hardly showing progress, compared to the rest of the world, in empirically comparable things. But this isn't how you scuttle it.
No. of Recommendations: 4
But this isn't how you scuttle it.
No kidding.
Does the Republican Congress want to scuttle it? They've certainly made noises to that effect for at least forty years.
Let them introduce a bill that calls for shutting down the DOE, and let them pass it. Then the president can sign it, and then it will be done.
But this....... this has nothing to do with the inherent value of the DOE or lack thereof.
This is simply a grab for executive power.
And the Republican Congress spreads its legs and says "Give me more!"
