The US President Donald Trump stands by Education Minister Linda McMahon, after signing an order of the executive, to reduce the size and scope of the educational department during a ceremony in the east of the White House on March 20, 2025 in Washington in Washington, DC indicates McMahon, which is not resolved without congress approval can. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Washington – The goal of President Donald Trump to close the educational department is in the congress where the Republicans’ Legislative efforts In order to abolish the agency, the agency remains Stark and the owners have rejected many of its proposed cuts for educational expenses.
After Trump was used for a promise last year to close the department, he came to office and promised to track, and took some preliminary steps.
He said he wanted the education secretary Linda McMahon, who “moved out of a job”, and signed a comprehensive order from the executive in March, she asked her to facilitate the closure of the educational department to the extent that she is legally permitted.
He won an crucial victory in the USA Supreme Court In July, which temporarily completed the way for the administration, with mass removal in the agency Smoking the department this March -Executive Order and its directive outlined Transfer certain services to other agencies.
Court documents show that the Plans to bring back the department More than 260 offices for civil rights that are affected by those relieving layoffs that result from a separate legal contestation of the actions of the administration at the beginning of this year.
After a dizzying selection of cuts and changes in the months in which Trump took up his office to reduce the agency, the GOP-controlled congress die is the only body that the 45-year department that she had created can be abolished.
Invoices shut down
For the beginning, the handful of GOP law templates in the congress are to close the department in the Senate, which requires at least 60 senators to advance the most laws.
The Republicans only hold 53 Senate seats.
In the house, at least four Republicans – Thomas Massie from Kentucky, David Rouzer from North Carolina, Barry Moore from Alabama and Nathaniel Moran from Texas – presented invoices this year to eliminate the department. These legal templates were transferred to the House Committee for Education and Endschaft, which was not right about one of them.
In a brief interview in Capitol on September 3, the chairman of the committee said Michigan Republican Tim Walberg that he still intended to finally dismantle the agency, but had not committed himself to a specific draft law.
“Our intentions are ultimately to dissolve the Ministry of Education – we know that we have to do this in a way that makes sense, and so we take a look at all bills,” Walberg told States Troom.
“I cannot say whether they all appear or not, but we know that with the Minister of Education we continue to be transferred to the Ministry of Labor with the right size and some things that we will remove,” said Michigan Republican’s republican.
The chairman admitted that there would not be enough voices in the Senate to abolish the agency.
“So what we can do seems to be right for our students, for our parents and for our teachers,” said Walberg.
GOP efforts to reduce the department are also underway in the Senate.
Senator Mike rounds from South Dakota as well as Sens. Jim Banks from Indiana and Tim Shehy from Montana have made a measure again in April Abolish the agency.
Kentucky sen. Rand Paul too reinstated an invoice In March with Sens. Mike Lee from Utah and Bernie Moreno from Ohio to close the department. The measure is an accompanying law for Massie’s legislation.
A spokesman for Senator Bill Cassidy, the chairman of the Senate Committee for Health, Education, Work and Pensions, said that the Republican in Louisiana “works with the administration and colleagues how the Congress is best able to codage the president’s legal reforms at the law of the President’s law”.
The spokesman found that “President Trump and Republicans are obliged to return the educational authority to the local communities that are best equipped for the needs of students and families”.
Senate rejects Trump’s spending cuts
The attempts by the administration to dramatically attribute the financing for the department in the 2026 financial year were not found with great enthusiasm by the appropriations in the Senate.
The committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate share the responsibility for the draft law in order to finance the department for the coming financial year.
The Senate Committee Advanced one a cross -party bill In July, the proposed cuts in educational expenses and his attempt to reduce the department largely rejected.
The invoice tightens the requirements for the department in order to have the required level of personnel in order to meet its legal responsibilities and prevents the agency from being transferred to other federal authorities.
The legislation also provides 79 billion US dollars at discretion Budget request from the administration This required 12 billion US dollars to the agency.
The house includes deep cuts, but holds the pellet editions
In the meantime, the sub -committee of the house fund on September 2 was promoted its expenditure for the agency and sent the invoice to the broader body.
The legislation corresponds much more to the expenditure of the administration, which reduces the administration priorities and educational agenda and demands 67 billion US dollars before discretionary financing in the department.
Part of the law also reduces the financing of grants from titles I-Die School districts with a high percentage of pupils who come from families with low incomes, according to a $ 5.2 billion, according to a Summary From the Republicans of the Committee.
The majority find that “despite the oversized investments, the public schools of America continue to fail children and families”.
The expenditure of proposals in both the house and in the Senate reject the request from the administration to significantly reduce the maximum award for the Pell Grant, a state subsidy that helps to pay low -income students for college.
Instead, each proposal retains the maximum award at $ 7,395.
House and Senate owners have several steps ahead of them before they can even achieve the negotiation phase on the draft law – including expenses for other agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services – and they get closer to the law.
It is possible that there is not even a final agreement for months, since the legislators have difficulty to achieve an overall agreement on how much it should spend in the coming financial year, but the cross -party plan of the Senate could give this chamber a greater advantage if these negotiations take place.
