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Trump's blow-up doll press secretary Leavitt recently tried to justify the attack by the administration on the Dept. of Education by claiming it's cost the American taxpayer $3 trillion since it's inception in 1979.
As always, one has to pay attention to details whenever ANYTHING is declared by the acolytes and flunkies of Cheeto Jeezus. Check out the following, and remember that this budget is distributed to 50 states:
The DOE spends about $200 billion a year (hell of a lot less than our military budget, which GROWS EVERY YEAR). That’s about 4% of the federal budget. Here’s how they spend it (source — Pew Center for Research)
As always, one has to pay attention to details whenever ANYTHING is declared by the acolytes and flunkies of Cheeto Jeezus. Check out the following, and remember that this budget is distributed to 50 states:
The DOE spends about $200 billion a year (hell of a lot less than our military budget, which GROWS EVERY YEAR). That’s about 4% of the federal budget. Here’s how they spend it (source — Pew Center for Research)
- $18.8 billion for schools with large numbers of poor, neglected, delinquent and other “educationally disadvantaged” students
- $15.5 billion for special education programs for students with disabilities
- $5.5 billion for a wide variety of school improvement efforts, such as making teachers more effective, funding high-quality after-school programs, and making better use of classroom technology
- $3.8 billion for adult rehabilitation services
- $2.2 billion for career, technical and adult education