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House GOP Shutdown Demands Include Gutting Billions From Dept. of Education, Costing Over 200,000 Teachers Their Jobs

Author:     David Badash
Source:     The New Civil Rights Movement
Publication Date:     September 26, 2023 | 01:01 PM ET
 Link: House GOP Shutdown Demands Include Gutting Billions From Dept. of Education, Costing Over 200,000 Teachers Their Jobs
Stephan:  

Do you have young children? Do you want them to be well-educated on the basis of facts? Well, if the Republicans have their way, that’s not going to happen. In fact, your kid’s school may not even be able to hire enough teachers to be able to have properly sized classes, and adequately stocked libraries. The Republicans don’t want educated Americans, they want indoctrinated easily manipulated peasants.

As House Republicans move closer to shutting down the federal government at midnight on Friday the details of their spending cut demands are becoming clearer, including their largest single target: the U.S. Department of Education, and specifically, a program that funds schools for low-income children.

As Semafor’s Jordan Weissmann explains, “Republican hardliners are pushing the government toward a shutdown so that they can force frontline members of their party to take a symbolic vote in favor of cutting federal funding for low-income public schools by 80%.”

Calling Tuesday “a big test for House Republicans,” The Washington Post reports the House “will vote on a procedural motion — a rule — to advance four of the 11 remaining individual spending bills the House hasn’t passed. If the vote fails, the chamber’s Republicans will seem even more unable to govern.”

“The vote is a last-minute play to appease a small group of hard-line Republicans and demonstrate that the party is working to enact deep, year-long spending cuts — but it will do nothing to prevent a […]

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