Keri Rodrigues, President of the National Parents’ Union, speaks on Friday, March 14, 2025, in Washington, DC, and protested the agency against the mass decisions of the US education department and the plans of President Donald Trump. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)
Washington – The US Ministry of Education has turned out to be central in the fight for control over the power of the wallet in the country’s capital.
The Democrats in the Congress are tough for freezing the Trump government of $ 6.8 billion in funds for post-school programs and more in public schools, some of which open their doors in a few weeks. California alone lost access to 939 million US dollars And every state sees millions of dollars frozen.
At the same time, the Supreme Court hit the door for judicial orders on Monday, which blocked the deposition of the 45-year-old agency that created and financed the congress.
The nation’s highest court solved the way So that the administration had dramatically reduced with mass removal and a plan for the dramatic reduction of the Ministry of Education, which President Donald Trump was at the beginning of this year.
In her devastating disagreementJustice Sonia Sotomayor wrote: “The majority are either deliberately blind to the effects of their decision or naive, but as far as the threat to separate the powers by the constitution is.”
Sotomayor, together with the Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, wrote that the president “must make sure that the laws are faithfully executed and not aimed at reducing them”.
“This basic rule underpinned the separation of powers by the constitution,” she wrote. “But today the majority reward a clearer despite this core principle with emergency aid.”
Just one day after the decision of the Supreme Court, House spokesman Mike Johnson reporters announced at a press conference on Tuesday that he had no chance of digesting the command of the Supreme Court, but he also knows: “Since its foundation, the Ministry of Education has been held by the executive department.”
“I think that was the intention of the congress, as I understood it at the time. We have a big say, but we will coordinate it with the White House,” said Louisiana’s republican.
“When we see that the separation of powers is injured in any way, we will act, but I haven’t seen it yet,” he added.
Letters from Democrats on frozen means
Two letters from the Senate and House Democrats who are calling for the administration release the federal funds of 6.8 billion US dollars for various education initiatives, which also represent the educational department as a central component of the dispute between the executive department and the congress.
Just one day before the date on July 1, on which these funds are usually planned as educators for the coming school year. The department informed states That it would hold back the financing of programs, including before and after school, migrant education, English -language learning and adult education and literacy as well as other initiatives.
Thirty -two senators and 150 house democrats wrote to the education secretary Linda McMahon and the Office for Management and Household Director Russ, Russ, who were asked last week to immediately remove the dollars they say “illegally”.
“It is unacceptable that the administration selects and selects which parts of the Announcement Act should follow and you have to implement the entire law immediately wrote in her letter.
The respective top democrats of the Senate appropriation committee and its sub -committee, the financing of the educational department, Sens. Patty Murray von Washington State, and Tammy Baldwin von Wisconsin, directed the letter alongside Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, the head management member of the Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor and Radio.
In the lower chamber, House Democrats wrote “Without these funds, schools with difficult and unnecessary decisions about programs for students and teachers are pending.”
“No more excuses – follow the law and release the funds for our schools, teachers and families,” they added.
The MEP of Georgia, Lucy McBath, led the letter together with the respective top democrats of the House Committee for Education and St. workforce, whose subcommittee for early childhood, primary and secondary level and its committee for university formation and labor development: Reps. Bobby Scott from Virginia, Suzanne Bonamici from Oregon and Alma Adams in North Carolina.
Democratic lawyers General, Governors submit complaint
Now a coalition of 24 states and the district of Columbia sued the Trump administration On Monday about these returned funds and again argued that the congress has the authority to steer the financing.
States include: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington State and Wisconsin.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, both Democrats, also signed in the lawsuit in one Federal Court Rhode Island.
“The congress not only requires that the accused provide the states, the congress, in connection with (educational department) regulations for the obligation to commit, also directs the time of the funds provided,” wrote the coalition.
An analysis in early July from New AmericaA left -wing Think Tank found that one of the five best school districts with the greatest total funding risk per student are at least two red states: Montana’s Cleveland Eleland elementary school district, Kester Elementary School District and Grant Elementary School District together with the Yoncalla District 32 and the Independent School District of Texas.
The Think Tank notes that no program financing data was not available for Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Wisconsin.
