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Trump says education secretarys goal will be to put herself out of a job as he pushes to abolish DOE
Her job is to end her job.President Trump reiterated that his top objective for Department of Education secretary nominee Linda McMahon is for her to bring about the elimination of the position altogether.“I told Linda — ‘Linda, I hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job,'” Trump, 78, recounted to reporters Tuesday.“I want her to put herself out of a job [in the] Education Department.”The president was asked about how he squares picking McMahon, 76, to helm the Education Department with his push to eliminate the department outright.
McMahon, who served as the administrator of the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term, has publicly echoed his goal of abolishing the department.Trump is rumored to be contemplating executive action to that end, but critics in the legal realm argue he would need to go through Congress in order to achieve that.“I think I’d work with Congress,” Trump said about ending the Department of Education.“We’d have to work with the teachers union because the teachers union is the only one that’s opposed to it.”“We have to tell the teachers union we’re rated last in the world in education of the top 40.”It is not immediately clear which rating system Trump was referencing.
Conservatives have long sought to get rid of the Education Department, which was created in 1979 under late former President Jimmy Carter.Former President Ronald Reagan had also backed eliminating the department.The Department of Education had $241.66 billion in budgetary resources last fiscal year, according to data from USASpending.gov.The bulk of those budgetary resources — about $180 billion — went to the Office of Federal Student Aid, which deals with student loans.Trump said he would prefer to return power from the department back to the states, which he argued are better suited to manage their own education systems.“I think that if you moved our schools into some of these states that are really we...