Education secretary faces Democratic fury over plan to wind down department

Sparks flew in the Capitol Hill building on Wednesday, where the Minister of Education Linda McMahon faced Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, DN.J. In a fiery exchange during a sub -hearing of the sources of the House of Representatives in the last clash over the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Ministry of Education.

Word of words started when Watson Coleman asked, “Do you think that there is illegal discrimination against black or brown people, other types of discrimination in jobs and education in this country?”

McMahon replied: “I think it is still in some areas.”

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Watson Coleman’s pressure on this: “Then can you tell me why the Civil Rights Office and the Ministry of Education are destroyed?”

McMahon replied, “Well, this has not been done. We have reduced its size. However, we take a state of accumulation of cases left from the Biden administration.”

Watson Coleman became clearly frustrated and accused the administration of racial prejudice in immigration and education policies, saying that its actions rise to “favoritism and set the priorities of the white color.”

In severe reprimand, Watson Coleman said: “Your speech does not mean anything to me. What means something for me is the actions of this administration. I tell you, the Ministry of Education is one of the most important departments in this country. You must feel that you are shameful to participate in an administration that does not give a curse.”

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Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, DN.J. , The Committee for the Credit in the House of Representatives, health services, education, and sub -agencies of relevant agencies. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

McMahon, who was composed, replied, “I am the Minister of Education approved to manage this agency by congress. The president appointed me. I work in his happiness according to his mandate. Therefore, the direction of his administration is what I will follow.

The stock exchange came as part of a larger session in which McMahon put the proposal of President Donald Trump’s budget for 2026, which calls for a reduction of $ 12 billion to the Ministry of Education, by 15 %.

McMahon described her work as the “final task” of the ministry: to stop it and restore the supervision of education for the states, parents and local teachers.

McMahon said: “Let’s focus on literacy. What we see in those degrees is our students’ failure to learn to read,” McMahon said. “We have lost the basics.”

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The plan is to merge 18 federal programs into a $ 2 billion generation grant for the states. Democrats described the proposal as a back effort for federal support for public schools.

On the students ’loans, McMahon said that the administration started restoring the payment after years of stopping in the era of Biden and confusion.

Education Minister Linda McMahon witnesses the parliament Committee in the Capitol Hill, on Wednesday. (Rod Lamky, Junior/Image)

“Since we have re -operated the groups in May, we have recovered nearly $ 100 million,” she said.

She also defended the discounts in employment and administrative restructuring, saying: “We are engraved with all our legal requirements with fewer people and the lowest public expenditures.”

Republicans in the sub -committee participated in their support for rented schools and the selection of schools. McMahon indicated, in the agreement, a proposed increase of $ 60 million in financing rented schools.

“We have about a million students on the lists of rented schools,” she said. “Parents must decide where their children can go to school and get the best education.”

Democrats also criticized McMahon for not defending early childhood education, especially the Head Start, although the program is declining technically under the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services.

“Every startup program in the country has three days of financing. This is not the problem of someone else. It is the children of America,” said MP Josh Harder, Dr. California.

Education Minister Linda McMahon is witnessing a hearing of the Budget of the Subcommittee Committee of the House of Representatives on the Capitol Hill, on Wednesday. (Rod Lamky, Junior/Image)

McMahon replied, “Earlier we can start education, that was better, but I do not think the federal government is responsible for everything. This is where countries can lead.”

The Trump administration also defended its location strongly outside the hearing room.

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“With regard to the issue of corruption, let us do not forget that the Ministry of Education has been established by President Carter in an attempt to win the voters,” Safana Newhaus, the press secretary of the Ministry of Education, said in a statement to the digital newspaper Fox News after the exchange.

“Since then, we have spent more than 3 trillion dollars in pretending that the department is necessary because the results of students did not improve,” I continued. “While the members of the Congress from New Jersey enjoy five minutes of her fame, the Trump administration is working to improve students’ results and ensure access to American families to the good education they deserve. “