The Political War over the Department of Education Is Only Beginning

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Hence, voters became more welcoming of immigration after Trump was first elected in 2016, only to reverse course after he was succeeded by Joe Biden.
51% : In a statement announcing her nomination, Trump specified that she would be charged with sending education governance "back to the states.
45% : "David Houston, a professor of education at George Mason University, said that Republicans had good reason to be cautious about taking decisive action against an entity whose functions -- which largely consist of subsidies to both K-12 and higher education, as well as civil rights enforcement and data collection -- are little understood outside the capital.
43% : While the Republican Party first vowed to eliminate federal interventions in schools over 40 years ago, its plans have yet to make headway with the broader public.
42% : Meanwhile, a majority of respondents polled by CBS News said they were excited or optimistic about what Trump would do as president.
42% : Cato's Edwards analogized the opportunity before Trump to the brief period in the 1990s when President Bill Clinton teamed with the GOP to reform welfare.
34% : "It's impossible to say, however, where the ground will settle -- particularly when any ambitious initiative led by Trump will very likely disturb it further.
34% : "It's an obviously polarizing dynamic because Trump is laying out a position that has always historically fallen within the Republican camp.
28% : Whether Trump is up for doing something like that, we don't know.
27% : If Trump launches a substantive attack on the K-12 bureaucracy, "I would expect Republican support for eliminating the Department of Education to shoot through the roof, and Democratic opposition to do the same," Houston predicted.

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