The US MP Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat in Michigan, speaks at a press conference on September 17, 2025 in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)
Washington -Democratic US representatives Rashida Tlaib from Michigan and Delia Ramirez from Illinois joined the US Capitol on Wednesday to blow up the proposed Reasons for educational expenses.
Legislators and demonstrators showed a law on a congress issue that requires 12 billion US dollars for cuts in the educational department for the coming financial year and fulfills many of President Donald Trump’s expenditure priorities, while he and his administration are trying to dismantle the agency.
Dozens of lawyers from all over the country marched from the headquarters of the educational department to the US Capitol in order to protest the proposed cuts organized by the political arm of popular democracy, a network of community-related organizations across the country. The march culminated in a press conference on which Tlaib and Ramirez collected with the supporters.
Trump outlines “processing” of the agency
Trump and his government have tried to bring an ax into the educational department in order to dramatically revise the federal role in education.
At the beginning of this year, Trump applied for spends in the amount of $ 12 billion in the department for the 2026 financial year. A. Summary In the shortening of the department’s request, it says “reflects an agency that is responsible”.
“They all know, and I feel that from my heart – the fact that the current president is not only loathsome, but is unconstitutional,” said Tlaib.
“You know that the Ministry of Education not only for those who live with disabilities, but also for different religious backgrounds, different communities, is incredibly important,” she said.
The Democrat from Michigan added: “Without the Ministry of Education, we know that many of our children are left behind and are not able to get the training and resources.”
House and Senate invoices differ
Although the committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate share the responsibility for the financing of the educational department for the coming financial year, their invoices are in a pointed contrast.
Promoter of the Senate largely rejected Trump’s proposed spending cuts in her cross -party draft law, which took out the committee in July. Your measure exacerbates the requirements for the department to have the necessary levels of personal levels in order to meet your legal responsibilities and prevents the agency from being transferred to other federal authorities.
But the draft law of the House Appropriations Committee, which too output from this panellargely in line with the educational agenda of the president and the expenditure of priorities.
Ramirez from Illinois gave up this bill and said that she would “support for English language learning, financing of teacher training and commitment and the mining of entire community schools”.
She noticed that “the Republicans are obsessed, the Ministry of Education and every program that protects the same opportunities for our children, reducing the Ministry of Education and the protection of the Ministry of Education, therefore the Republicans decrease from the public education of our children at more than $ 12 billion.”
