Senator Baldwin Calls Out Trump Executive Order Seeking to Dismantle Department of Education to Pay for Billionaire Tax Breaks

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) released the following statement blasting President Donald Trump’s executive order directing his Administration to attempt to dismantle and shutter the Department of Education: 

“Donald Trump and Elon Musk are coming after your kids’ education so they can give tax breaks to rich guys like themselves and big corporations. Make no mistake: the goal here is to cut funding from our public schools and it’s Wisconsin families and students who will suffer. Dismantling the Department of Education will jeopardize support for students with disabilities, threaten students’ ability to get a good education, and make it harder to keep children safe. Cuts to education funding could mean teachers are fired, class sizes go up, mental health and school safety programs vanish, and students not getting the education they need and deserve. 

“Donald Trump remains hellbent on rigging the system for the ultrawealthy at Wisconsin families’ expense and I’ll fight like hell to make sure our students aren’t the ones paying for Republicans tax breaks for billionaires.”  

Today, President Trump signed an executive order directing actions to further dismantle and eventually close the Department of Education, a congressionally-approved, decades-old agency that is charged with protecting students’ civil rights, supporting students with disabilities, and funding public schools, Pell Grants, and student loans. 

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