Will Trump Eliminate The Department Of Education? What To Know As Linda McMahon Picked To Lead Agency

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Project 2025's education plan calls to eliminate Title I funding (which supports students from low-income families) and instead dole out block grants to states without spending oversight; cut the Head Start program, which the Center for American Progress warns would restrict access to childcare in rural areas and "exacerbate inequalities among families with young children"; and roll back Biden-era Title IX revisions that prohibit discrimination in schools based on of sexual orientation and gender identity.
33% : "We will drain the government education swamp and stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America's youth with all sorts of things that you don't want to have our youth hearing," Trump said during a September rally in Wisconsin.
30% : Trump has not specified what the fate of federal student loan programs would be if the Department of Education is eliminated.
22% : Trump in June blasted Biden's forgiveness plans as "vile," saying they were just "to get publicity with the election.

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