One interesting development over the first month and a half of the Trump Administration has been the degree to which the media has deeply passionate opinions about the federal government’s bureaucratic org chart. On MSNBC’s Saturday edition of The Katie Phang Show, the eponymous host welcomed AFT president Randi Weingarten to simultaneously claim the Department of Education does not control education and that the administration’s goal to get rid of it is the same as getting rid of education. Meanwhile, Phang would argue they are doing so because they want people to be “ignorant.”
Phang began by asking, “They're trying to eliminate the existence of the Department of Education. Why, if it doesn't make a difference to you if a Republican or a Democrat is dismantling the DoE going to be such a disaster for our country?”
Weingarten responded that “It's a disaster symbolically, as much as it's a disaster in reality. Think about a country whose president basically says as their first acts, ‘I'm getting rid of education.’”
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