Multiple programs for students and families got the ax last week as the Trump administration and a far-too-pliant Congress strove to make ordinary people pay for a proposed $4.5 trillion tax cut for billionaires. The administration terminated nearly half the staff at the U.S. Department of Education, jeopardizing its ability to perform legally required […]

  Just hours after she was confirmed, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon emailed staff and told them to prepare for their “final mission”: dismantling the U.S. Department of Education. Numerous reports indicate that President Trump plans to make it official with an executive order, but the White House at least tentatively paused release of the […]

  Along an almost-party line vote—every Democrat present and a single Republican voted no—the House adopted instructions for the Republican budget resolution, the first step in the reconciliation process that leads to more tax cuts for billionaires, paid for by everyone else. Urge members of Congress to oppose it with an email, phone call, or both. The bill itself remains […]