Former President Donald Trump wants to end the Department of Education and empower states if he is reelected, he said during an X Spaces interview with Elon Musk on Monday.
“I want to close the Department of Education — move education back to the states…” Trump told Musk, Tesla CEO and X/Twitter owner.
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Trump contended that if states were allowed sole control of their own educational systems, it would decrease costs while driving up healthy competition between the states.
“But if you moved education back to the 50 [states], you’ll have some that won’t do well…But they’ll actually be forced to do better because it’ll be a pretty bad situation,” he said. “But if you think about it, you’ll have some of these states — I’ll bet you’d have 30, 35 states [where education] will be much better. And you know what? It’ll cost less than half what it is in Washington. And these people don’t care about the students in these far away states.”
“It would be unbelievable,” he emphasized.
Musk told Trump he was “making a good point” and appeared to agree that such a policy would enable Americans to more easily choose where they live and where they could have better opportunities.
“That’s right,” Trump replied.
Trump has previously called for the Department of Education to be ended or scaled back. In 2016, he said the department “can be largely eliminated.” Betsy DeVos, who served as the U.S. Secretary of Education under Trump, has also called for the abolishment of the Department of Education.
Last night Trump endorsed the idea of eliminating the Department of Education!
On February 7th, 2017, the US Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos as Trump’s Secretary of Education.
Purposefully, on that same day, I introduced HR 899, a bill to terminate the Department of Education. pic.twitter.com/57x3jeWkkS
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) August 13, 2024
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) praised Trump’s endorsement of ending the Department of Education in a post to X on Tuesday, and renewed his call to pass his one-sentence bill, HR899, which would terminate the department.
Today, for the 1st time since the Department of Education was established, the House of Representatives will vote on whether it should be able to tell parents, teachers, and school boards what, and how, children should learn. pic.twitter.com/QkX4LrgzbP
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) March 24, 2023
In closing, creation of the US Department of Education was a failed re-election ploy of Jimmy Carter,
but now we are stuck with what amounts to a national school board composed of 4,000 bureaucrats.
Let’s empower teachers and parents by passing HR 899 to End the Dept of Ed.!
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) August 13, 2024
“In closing, [the] creation of the U.S. Department of Education was a failed re-election ploy of Jimmy Carter, but now we are stuck with what amounts to a national school board composed of 4,000 bureaucrats,” Massie continued. “Let’s empower teachers and parents by passing HR 899 to End the Dept of Ed.!”
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on X @thekat_hamilton.
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