McMahon lays out Education Department 'final mission' to House appropriators [View all]
Source: Roll Call
Posted May 21, 2025 at 3:26pm
Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Wednesday defended the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to her agency as part of an overall effort to shutter her department — a goal she described as its “final mission.”
Testifying before the House Appropriations Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee, McMahon offered sparse details when pressed about cuts that have already been implemented, as well as the Trump administration’s so-called “skinny” budget request for fiscal 2026.
That request includes about $12 billion in cuts to federal education spending — about a 15 percent decrease from fiscal 2025. McMahon said her top priorities as Education secretary are to improve literacy rates, increase school choice and return education to the states.
“Here we are today with a Department of Education that was really stood up in 1980 by President Carter,” McMahon said. “We’ve spent over $3 trillion during that time, and every year we have seen our scores continue to either stagnate or fall. It is clear that we are not doing something right.”
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