Re: The View Host Floats Bizarre Theory Why Trump Would Ax Education Dept

On Feb 16, 2025 at 4:59:49 PM PST, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

THE VIEW host Sunny Hostin claimed on Thursday that President Donald
Trump wanted to gut the Department of Education because his end goal
was to foster the growth of a "permanent underclass" of uneducated
laborers.
 
Hostin made the comments during Thursday's broadcast of the ABC News
midday talk show-- even as Linda McMahon, Trump’s choice to serve as
Secretary of Education, sat on Capitol Hill taking questions about how
she planned to lead the department if confirmed.
 
Responding to Trump's assertions that he would prefer to ultimately
dismantle the federal Department of Education-- turning the power over
to the states-- Hostin argued that he'd gotten the idea from Project
2025 despite his repeated insistence that he’d never even read it.

Or maybe-- and I'm just spitballing here-- he got the idea from the
Constitution, which lists the powers of the federal government in Article I,
Section 8 and then says in Amendment X that any power not specifically listed
belongs to the states.

Education is not an enumerated (listed) power, therefore it belongs to the
states. The Department of Education is basically unconstitutional.

No need for "Project 2025". Just a simple adherence to the fundamental law of
the land, something our government hasn't bothered doing for close to a
century now.