a smart, targeted approach is needed in order to not hinder life-saving, groundbreaking research at high-achieving institutions like those in Alabama.

It's important for us to allow the Department of Education to continue to do its work. That's the heart, soul and spirit of America.

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

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.

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.

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.

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. ... Then I’m going to go, go to the military. Let’s check the military.

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.

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

He will be looking at education pretty quickly.

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

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

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 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?