Trump Vowed to Torpedo Dept. Of Education, Ending an Era of Government Waste and Abuse

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter established the Department of Education, one of the most egregious moves by the U.S. government against the people.

Since then, it’s followed the long, proud tradition of being a federal department that fails upward. Any inability to achieve a good result is because it wasn’t funded enough, or staffed enough. The budget for 2025 has the Dept. of Ed taking in nearly $90 billion, and yet, since its inception, we went from being number one in education in the world to one of the worst.

As such, many of President-elect Donald Trump’s promises made during a video made a year ago are going viral today and one people are excited about was his promise to end the Department of Education, stopping the wasteful spending and putting control of children’s education wholly back to the states.

“One other thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington D.C., and sending all education and education work, and needs, back to the states,” said Trump. “We want them to run the education of our children because they’ll do a much better job of it.”

“You can’t do worse,” he continued. “We spend more money per pupil by three times than any other nation, and we’re absolutely at the bottom. We’re one of the worst. So you can’t do worse.”

“We’re going to end education coming out of Washington D.C., we’re going to close it up,” he said. “All those buildings, all over the place and yeah, people that, in many cases, hate our children. We’re going to send it all back to the states.”

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