Education

Oh, I'd like it to be closed immediately. Look, the Department of Education is a big con job.

It is stunning to me that [Linda McMahon] wants to [DOE] but couldn't name EVEN ONE part of this basic federal education law she would focus on. It's disqualifying.

Make no mistake, this is just the first step Trump and Musk are taking to abolish the Department of Education.

Every kid deserves a great public education and that can't happen without nonpartisan research and data to understand what's working and what needs to be fixed.

We have seen this Republican playbook before. They claim we must cut spending on education, on health care like Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, on housing, on foreign aid, on climate solutions.

When I see our NAEP scores not improving, when I see things that are messed up or wrong, or kids being used as political pawns for some political stunt, it’s just frustrating.

I've instructed him to go check out Education, to check out the Pentagon, which is the military.

I’m going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. ... Then I’m going to go, go to the military. Let’s check the military.

I’m going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education.

It’s almost been a reminder to voters that there are things about government that they like, such as their Social Security, Medicaid and funding for schools in working-class neighborhoods.

They are blocking members of Congress from entering the Department of Education! Elon is allowed in and not the people? ILLEGAL.

He will be looking at education pretty quickly.

Congress created the department to ensure all students in America have equal access to a high-quality education and that their civil rights are protected no matter their ZIP code.

We will not stand by and allow this to happen to the nation’s students, parents, borrowers, educators, and communities.

We don’t need a Yale-educated philosophy major backed by billionaire-venture capitalists to tell us who we are.

One in five children in my district faces hunger, and without access to this critical nutrition, parents cannot focus on going to work or going to school.

If Congress incentivized middle school, high school, to create skilled trades programs, so to speak, for students, do you think that would obviously have a positive effect on our workforce in the future?

Can education providers be nimble and responsive like business and industry, right?