The very day Congress confirmed Betsy DeVos as the Secretary of Education in early 2017, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) introduced a bill that would dismantle the federal agency she was about to head.
“The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018,” the one-sentence bill read.
Five years later, Massie still believes that the Department of Education (DOE), now with 4,400 employees, a $68 billion annual budget, and tasks including student aid management, civil rights enforcement, and teacher certification, shouldn’t exist in the first place.
“Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. should not be in charge of our children’s intellectual and moral development,” the libertarian-identified Republican said when he introduced a nearly identical bill again last year….