These actions likely contravene the law and will hurt students and families everywhere. Only Congress can choose to abolish the Department of Education; the President cannot shut down the Department by decree.
Schumer emphasizes the legal limits of Trump's actions regarding the Education Department.
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We Democrats have been calling on Republican leaders to sit down with us and negotiate and address this crisis since the summer.
This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability and begins a process of negotiating reforms to the ACA tax credits for the future.
On November 1, people in more than 30 states are going to be aghast when they see their bills and they're going to cry out, and I believe there will be increased pressure on Republicans to negotiate with us.
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