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Thomas Massie@RepThomasMassie · Aug 13, 2024

🧵 Last night Trump endorsed the idea of eliminating the Department of Education! On February 7th, 2017, the US Senate…

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A congressman shares his efforts to eliminate the Department of Education through HR 899, noting Trump's recent endorsement and listing the 161 House members who voted to support the measure as well as the 32 cosponsors of the legislation.

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    🧵 Last night Trump endorsed the idea of eliminating the Department of Education! On February 7th, 2017, the US Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos as Trump’s Secretary of Education. Purposefully, on that same day, I introduced HR 899, a bill to terminate the Department of Education.

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    🧵 I remember meeting Betsy DeVos for the first time at the White House Christmas party and that uncomfortable moment when I told her I was trying to eliminate her department. To my surprise she quietly agreed. She said publicly this week she would eliminate the department!

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    🧵 I have reintroduced this bill each Congress, and I have taken care that it is always designated as HR 899. Many people like that my bill is only one sentence long. No beating around the bush. Perhaps my colleagues can take time to read it!

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    🧵 Who in Congress supports ending this monstrosity? Does your congressman? We don’t have to guess, because I forced a vote on it last year as an amendment to another education bill. Speaker McCarthy not only allowed the vote, he voted for my amendment. Here’s my floor speech.

    Thomas Massie@RepThomasMassie · Mar 24, 2023

    Today, for the 1st time since the Department of Education was established, the House of Representatives will vote on whether it should be able to tell parents, teachers, and school boards what, and how, children should learn.

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    🧵 Here’s a list of the 161 U.S. Representatives (AYES) who support returning power back to parents, teachers, local school boards, and the states. I’m also including a list (NOES) of those who want to perpetuate this hurtful bureaucracy. clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll1…

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    🧵 Who’s actively helping advance the legislation (not just a sense-of-Congress amendment) to the floor? This is the list of the 32 Congressmen who are cosponsors of my legislation to terminate the federal Department of Education. Please thank them! congress.gov/bill/118th-con…

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    🧵 In closing, creation of the US Department of Education was a failed re-election ploy of Jimmy Carter, but now we are stuck with what amounts to a national school board composed of 4,000 bureaucrats. Let’s empower teachers and parents by passing HR 899 to End the Dept of Ed.!