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Let’s Get Serious about Eliminating the Department of Education
“The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2023.” If you’ve read this far, you have completed HR899, introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie.
Abolishing the DOE isn’t a new idea. The department was created in 1979 by the Carter administration, fulfilling a campaign promise to the NEA, the teachers union, which in turn gave him their first ever presidential endorsement.
But skepticism over the department was present even at its inception. The bill passed by just four votes in a heavily Democratic House. Ronald Reagan, always concerned about over-centralized power, immediately campaigned to unwind it. Several Republican education leaders since have endorsed its elimination.
Joe Biden is facing a moral dilemma. Does he embrace politically unpopular reforms to Social Security and Medicare that will ensure their survival for future generations, or does he, for short-term political gain, aggressively block any changes to these iconic retirement programs?
America’s political class can no longer put off the inevitable. They soon will have to pay for their insanely reckless fiscal practices.
Over the last few decades, no force on earth has been able to halt the explosive growth of US federal debt.
