President Donald Trump did not fall on Wednesday in an attempt by NBC News White House reporter Kelly O’Donnell.
Ed eliminated 1,315 of his 4,133 employees on Tuesday as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce wasteful and fraudulent spending implemented by the federal government. O’Donnell suggested at Trump’s oval office meeting with Ireland’s Prime Minister Michael Martin that he should be responsible for stripping some of the “civil servants” of his job, urging the president to remind him that he has the best employees who do his job efficiently.
“Do you explain for us, will this meet your vision by cutting around half the workforce? Many of them worked at the Department of Education during your first semester,” O’Donnell said.
“I’m right, I feel very bad, but a lot of them don’t work at all. Unfortunately, a lot of them didn’t show up at work, so that’s not good,” Trump said. “And when we cut, we go, it’s that I’ve been in the past few months, when we cut, we want to cut, but we want to cut people who aren’t doing work or who aren’t doing good work. We keep the best people. [Education Secretary] Linda McMahon is a real expert and a very sophisticated businessman, and although she cut down on many, she has the best people and we’ll see how it works. ” (Related: Biden-appointed judge blocks education department from terminating DEI teacher grants)
The president said the US education system is lagging nationwide and should be handled by the states.
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“We have dreams. Do you know what a dream is? We’re moving the Department of Education. We’re going to move education to the state, so that the state can get education on behalf of the bureaucrats working in Washington,” Trump said. “And you have Norway, you have Denmark, you have Sweden, you have different countries that do very well. You also have China that do very well in education, and it is a very great respect for China, I have to say… So we can’t blame the size anymore. Usually you blame the size, [the U.S.] It’s too big, what should I do [fix education]. ”
“But China does that, so if we go back to Iowa and Indiana and all the states that run very well, they’ll be as good as Denmark.
A senior ED official told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the cut would allow the department to begin the process of allowing education oversight at the state level.
Federal, state, and local governments spend C-12 public education costs around $857.2 billion a year, but the federal government has spent a record $190 billion in school aid since the Covid-19 pandemic without seeing a significant increase in student academic performance. The national report found in January that a third of eighth graders failed to reach the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Reading Assessment Benchmark in 2024.
Since the pandemic, students have been lagging behind mathematics for over 30 years a year, struggling with reading and science. This is an analysis of the New York Times, which was discovered in March. A national assessment of school closure rates and educational advances showed that students in remote learning environments had worse test scores than students who were allowed to study in person.
Previously Trump Expression He plans to shut down ED completely, bring education issues back to the state, and led an incensed Democrat in Congress trying to enter the ED Building on February 7th.
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