There’s still a lot of work to be done on reconciliation, the vehicle for the GOP’s legislative agenda: tax cuts for billionaires, paid for by everyone else. In keeping with the start of baseball season, an apt analogy is that the second inning has just begun. The Senate and House GOP are far apart […]

  Last week, President Trump issued an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education—official acknowledgment of what is already happening in plain sight. “Donald Trump and Elon Musk have aimed their wrecking ball at public schools and the futures of the 50 million students in rural, suburban, and urban communities across America, by dismantling public […]

  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 […]