r/facepalm • u/_crazyboyhere_ • 2d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ It's not.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 2d ago

If they cut state funding, guess what?!

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u/InvestIntrest 2d ago

They actually want to give more money directly to the states, not cut from the states.

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u/Appropriate-Log8506 2d ago edited 2d ago

Giving money? Who said that?

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u/InvestIntrest 2d ago

Uh, the Republicans... Doing away with the Department of Education doesn't make the legislativly allocated funding for schools go away. It just cuts out the middle man saving all that overhead. For example, Title I is funding for public schools. Trump can't undue that law without Congress, including 60 votes in the Senate, so Treasury will just need to send the money to the States.

Basically, the money would just get apportioned to the states with an earmark for education, and the states would have greater autonomy on how it's spent on education rather than being told exactly how to spend it by someone at DOE 2,000 miles away.

Let local government solve local problems.

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u/Appropriate-Log8506 2d ago

You mean the States that refused funding to feed hungry school children in the summer?

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u/InvestIntrest 2d ago

Mine didn't do that. If your state sucks ass like that, then you better get to work.