Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.) threw a tantrum Monday in reaction to the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) making sweeping cuts to federal agencies.
In an appearance on MSNBC, DeLauro lamented the Trump administration’s plan to investigate and possibly shut down the Department of Education, falsely claiming students would suddenly find they have no teachers in the classroom and no lunches in the cafeteria.
“You take education, you’re looking at denying people school lunches. You’re taking the opportunity for a college education if you cut Pell Grants. You cut student financial aid. There are a whole range of what these services do for the American public. That’s the word that has to get out,” DeLauro said.
Dem Rep DeLauro is apoplectic about Trump and DOGE —
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 10, 2025
— says Americans are outraged that the Trump admin is "dismantling the federal government."
"Your kid may be in a classroom that doesn't have a teacher!" pic.twitter.com/eFotphPdlq
“When you cut education, you cut 72,000 teachers nationwide, they’re gone. Your kid may be in a classroom that doesn’t have a teacher. Special education for developmentally challenged kids, that will be cut. What happens to those kids?”
DeLauro went on to defend USAID, which Musk’s DOGE discovered had been operating as a massive slush fund for numerous liberal pet projects, and insisted DOGE will soon shut down Medicaid.
“It’s USAID, it’s education, they’re going to go to Medicaid, and it is about the effect of what happens and the lives of American people, of middle-class families, of working families, of what’s going to happen to their ability to be able to survive both economically and to be able to have a future going forward,” she said.
“That’s what they’re doing. They are dismantling the federal government which will deny the American people the services and the resources that allow them to help- to raise their families, have a secure economy and a secure future for themselves,” she added.
DeLauro failed to mention that most teachers, while considered government employees, are state, not federal employees, so an overhaul of the Dept. of Education would have little effect on their jobs.
Additionally, though certain federal programs such as Pell Grants would be eliminated, they would likely be kicked back to the states, which already handle most day-to-day education operations.
DOGE had gained access to the Dept. of Education’s administrator email accounts over the weekend and at the direction of Trump began its audit of the agency.
Musk said Friday in response to an apoplectic Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost (D) freaking out over DOGE taking over the agency, “What is this ‘Department of Education’ you keep talking about? I just checked and it doesn’t exist.”
What is this “Department of Education” you keep talking about?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2025
I just checked and it doesn’t exist.
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