HHS wants to strip the standards that have defined Head Start since 1965 — student-to-teacher ratio rules, teacher qualifications, the limits on suspending and expelling children — and would require that classes be taught in English.
Lindell's 72-page plan cuts education by $4.9 billion, healthcare by $11 billion and public assistance by $3.6 billion — then asks private donors to cover the $16.5 billion still missing, through a giving program modeled on his own 'Lindell Direct Assistance Program.'
Trump's HHS scrapped the rule capping child care copays at 7% of a family's income. On July 30 the Senate had a chance to undo it. These 14 Republicans we track voted no.
Congress put it in writing: no law lets the Education Department hand its jobs to other agencies. Then it passed the bill anyway, asked for briefings it never got, and started writing new laws to make the whole thing legal after the fact.
H.R. 899 is one sentence long. But abolishing the Department of Education is only the loud part of the plan — the quiet part is a new, uncapped federal tax credit that drains public school money into private and religious schools.
A month after new student loan rules hit 600,000 Kentuckians, it's worth remembering that Brett Guthrie fought to kill loan forgiveness for teachers and nurses — while a company he helps run had $4.4 million in federal loans wiped clean.
A new analysis puts a number on Ramaswamy's promise to roll property taxes back to pre-pandemic levels: $4 billion a year in his first budget, $6.6 billion a year in his second. His plan to pay for it is growing Ohio's population by 26%.
At a House Education Committee hearing, Georgia's Rick Allen skipped the oversight and delivered a sermon instead — asking Columbia's president if she wanted her school cursed by God.
A ProPublica investigation into MAGA influencer Nick Adams' civics charity found almost no evidence it teaches civics — and a $1,000,000 sweepstakes prize with no record of ever being paid. It fits a pattern.
