Cutting the Department of Education stirs way more public emotion than downsizing something like USAID. I think it’s because education feels personal, we all went through school, we’ve got kids in it, and it shapes futures in visible ways. USAID operates further from daily life, even though it does critical global work. I remember looking into transcript evaluation through WES and reading a few reviews on https://world-education-services.pissedconsumer.com/review.html, it made me realize just how messy things can get when education support systems don’t work well, especially for immigrants or international students. Education touches everyone, that’s why it hits harder.

Eeeeksiting!

Way more people know the DoE by name than they do USAID, I think YES is pretty secure based on that alone

@MingCat I could see it being done in a way that minimizes the liberal outcry, or done towards the end of the year as the nth agency being liquidated, by which point the liberals could be exhausted with no fight left in them.