"The Department of Education, for all its faults, performs vital functions: coordinating federal aid for low-income students, enforcing civil rights protections, distributing student loans and Pell Grants, collecting and standardizing national education data, and supporting education research."
None of that is defined in the Constitution as part of the federal government's powers. It is absolutely a principled conservative position to want the department, and all of its roles, eliminated.
Trump will obviously do so in the most destructive, counterproductive manner possible because he is not a conservative by any definition, but that's a separate issue.
"The Department of Education, for all its faults, performs vital functions: coordinating federal aid for low-income students, enforcing civil rights protections, distributing student loans and Pell Grants, collecting and standardizing national education data, and supporting education research."
None of that is defined in the Constitution as part of the federal government's powers. It is absolutely a principled conservative position to want the department, and all of its roles, eliminated.
Trump will obviously do so in the most destructive, counterproductive manner possible because he is not a conservative by any definition, but that's a separate issue.