And despite the success of IDEA and programs like this, this regime is accelerating plans to dismantle the Department of Education and roll back the progress it has enabled by moving important programs to other departments with no education expertise. Recently, for example, Trump tried to take advantage of the shutdown to illegally fire hundreds more workers from the Education Department. including at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and and the Office for Civil rights Education Secretary McMahon, herself one of Trump's billionaire buddies, has made the preposterous claim that the shutdown proved the Education Department is unnecessary. (05:32–05:41)
CLAIM
Asserts that Trump attempted to use the shutdown to illegally fire hundreds of Education Department workers.
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