The swamp strikes again as Collins and Murkowski side with Democrats to preserve federal bureaucracy’s grip on American classrooms.
The swamp strikes again. In a move that should surprise absolutely no one who’s been paying attention, a Senate committee has voted to obstruct President Trump’s efforts to dismantle the bloated Department of Education, with two so-called Republican senators joining Democrats to preserve the federal bureaucracy’s grip on American classrooms.
The Senate HELP Committee approved legislation Thursday that would prohibit the Department of Education from moving special education and other key offices to different federal agencies. The bill, S. 5046, passed 13-9 with the support of Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, proving once again that the RINO wing of the Republican Party remains more committed to preserving government institutions than to fulfilling the promises they made to voters.
This legislative maneuver directly undermines the Trump administration’s strategy of using interagency agreements to shift education functions to other departments while awaiting congressional action to eliminate the department entirely. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has called these agreements "proof of concept" that the federal education bureaucracy can be decentralized and ultimately dismantled without chaos.
But apparently, Collins and Murkowski know better than the president who campaigned on this issue and the voters who elected him to drain the swamp. The Department of Education, created by Congress 45 years ago under Jimmy Carter, has become a bloated institution that too often serves as a vehicle for progressive indoctrination rather than actual education. Yet these Republican senators seem more concerned with preserving the status quo than with returning control of education to states and parents where it belongs.
The bill specifically targets the department’s agreements to move certain functions to other agencies, effectively forcing the administration to maintain the existing structure that Trump has pledged to eliminate. It’s a clever parliamentary maneuver that stops short of outright preventing the department’s closure but makes it significantly more difficult to achieve.
What’s particularly galling is the pretense that this is about protecting students. The same federal education system that has presided over declining test scores, pushed divisive curricula, and failed American children for decades is suddenly indispensable because it might be reorganized? The argument doesn’t hold water.
Trump made eliminating the Department of Education a centerpiece of his campaign, recognizing what millions of American parents already know: Washington bureaucrats have no business micromanaging local schools. The department’s track record speaks for itself, and it’s not one that justifies preserving the institution at all costs.
This vote reveals the ongoing battle within the Republican Party between those who genuinely want to shrink the federal government and those who merely pay lip service to conservative principles while voting to protect every program and department that comes up for review. Collins and Murkowski have made their choice clear. The question now is whether Republican leadership will let this obstruction stand or find another path to fulfill the president’s mandate.
Source: Breitbart
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