Mike Rounds submitted bill that needs supermajority to pass, unlikely even in GOP-controlled Senate next year

Summary

Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) introduced the Returning Education to Our States Act, aiming to abolish the U.S. Department of Education, a long-time Republican goal aligned with Trump’s agenda.

The bill proposes redistributing the department’s $200 billion budget and responsibilities to other federal agencies and states, such as shifting federal student loans to the Treasury.

Critics warn this could undermine protections for students with disabilities and marginalized groups.

While the bill faces significant political hurdles, it reflects broader GOP efforts to reduce federal influence over education policy.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    171·
    8 hours ago

    Just keep going with that logic and defunding every public service and let them separate every state until they all become 50 small autonomous countries.

    • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
      6·
      5 hours ago

      It’s been a fierce debate and position held by some since before the US was even officially anything.

      The people who want a less federal power also often forget that the US has, until now, been largely blessed by not having to deal with an outside enemy state on their own same soil for prolonged time. Loose control could mean that becomes a real and actual problem.

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        I’ve seen GOP Voters on a local news app talking about how they can’t wait to see what happens when “California and New York stop asking other states and Big Daddy Government for hand outs!”

        And I had to sit down and say “Oh my sweet summer child”

        California is the 5th Largest and Most Powerful Economy in the world lol

      • Carnelian@lemmy.world
        10·
        6 hours ago

        Man why are we fantasizing about this. What’s the reddest state you can think of, Texas? 42% blue. Florida? 43%. Even in ridiculous places like North Dakota, 1/3 of the people voted blue. What happens to them when blue states form their little utopia?

        • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          6·
          5 hours ago

          Is it better to let the entire country suffer then instead? This whole election has been a series of complicated trolley problems

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
          21·
          4 hours ago

          The problem is that the US is in a fucked up stagnate state, this makes it so the more progressive areas cant improve fast enough and keeps the red states in a place where they are fundamentally incapable of the form required.