One other day, one other Donald Trump determination for The View cohosts to dissect. On Thursday’s (February 13) version, it was his acknowledged plans to eradicate the Division of Training that had the panelists fired up as the primary “Sizzling Matter.”
After reviewing footage of Trump saying he’d prefer it to be “closed instantly” and calling it “an enormous con job,” together with a section of Elon Musk declaring he needs to “delete total companies,” cohosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Pleasure Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin had their say.
“They simply make issues up,” Behar mentioned concerning the White Home’s rationalization for the deliberate transfer. She additionally mentioned that the half that makes her really feel “loopy” is that the applications which can be being focused by the administration’s DOGE arm tend to service lower-income people. She added, “Individuals mustn’t put up with it.”
Hostin identified that this was one thing foretold in Mission 2025, including, “We warned all people that that was the playbook, and it stays the playbook, and they’re enjoying by that ebook.” She went on to play a clip from a congressman who identified how little monetary affect eliminating the DoE would have on the federal price range earlier than including, “I believe there’s a way more nefarious agenda for it. I believe it’s as a result of, with out training, you get cheaper labor. I believe what they need to do is create, in the US, a everlasting underclass, a everlasting low cost workforce. Educated employees value extra. That’s what they’re doing.”
Griffin was extra sympathetic to Trump’s argument that we’re paying some huge cash per pupil, including, “For Democrats to behave like they’re all saints and that that is horrible to eliminate anybody, most individuals have interacted with the federal authorities, and so they assume it’s too inefficient. It doesn’t work.”
Haines argued {that a} transfer to show all training administration to the states might have a really particular consequence: “Keep in mind that throwing it again to the States has some large dangers in regard to indoctrinating of your youngsters. There are some actually spiritual states. I am going to church, love faith, [but] not my public faculties and never my public establishments. That was a significant advantage within the Structure separating these two. Once you go away this as much as states, you’ve bought 50 methods to method it. There must be federal oversight on one thing that’s assembly our children every single day in school. And I might by no means go away that to the states.”
For Goldberg, the difficulty of spending cuts being ordered by a man who simply bought one other profitable authorities contract is what actually irked her. Citing the information that Musk bought a $400 million contract for armored Teslas, she argued, “Minimize that out.” (Observe: That plan has reportedly been placed on maintain.)
She additionally listed off a few of the issues the Division of Training manages, together with pupil monetary help, making a nationwide report card, and monitoring civil rights in faculties, and concluded, “So principally, you’re saying to us, we’re on our personal.” She then questioned, “I don’t know what our tax cash goes to!”
“Why do we’ve to pay federal taxes?” Behar agreed.
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