Exclusive: The top legislator of the home education and personnel committee supports president Donald Trump While he is ready to abolish the federal Ministry of Education, but the legislator is skeptical congress.
“I support him in the fact that we are the Ministry of EducationReturn education to the States, especially for K-12, and get control of the higher institutions and lets them work, “Chairman Tim Walberg, R-Mich., Said in an interview with Fox News Digital.” Whether we can abolish it or not, is the question “
He pointed out that the Senate threshold for most legislation, which is 60, means that Republicans can probably be forced to look for democratic votes as a bill to abolish the department to the congress.
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Home education and personnel committee chairman Tim Walberg said that he supports President Donald Trump’s urge to abolish the Ministry of Education, but wonders if the congress would support him. (Getty Images)
“It costs voting. The president can do executive orders, but they will be limited in time and scope. The voices are not there, I think, to completely abolish the department in the Senate,” said Walberg.
Michigan’s Republican, however, indicated that the congress could still look at what kind of changes they could make.
“So what can we do to reform power, to replace that we let the system work for the time being? I think that is the question we have,” he said.
Linda McMahon is the new Minister of Education. (Reuters/Mike Fresh/File)
Trump is expected to sign an executive order to abolish the Ministry of Education, something that has been that has been Pushed by conservative Republicans for years.
It comes just after his new Minister of Education, Linda McMahon, was confirmed by the Senate on Monday.
The department was founded in its modern form in 1980 after the then President Jimmy Carter separated it from what the Ministry of Health and Human Services is now.
House speaker Mike Johnson signaled support for Trump’s push. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/File)
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House speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Worked his openness to abolish it on Thursday in comments to reporters.
“The more we push control of education into parents and local school boards and authorities, the better we are,” said Johnson.
