Donald Trump Withholding $7 Billion In School Funds, No Reason, Just Being A Prick

[erronis]

https://www.wonkette.com/p/donald-trump-withholding-7-billion
Doktor Zoom

What’s left of the US Department of Education told state education agencies across the nation Monday that they can’t have some $6.8 billion in funding they’d been expecting to be released on Tuesday as part of the normal budgeting process. The funds were passed by Congress in March as part of the continuing resolution that kept the government open, but just because Congress makes appropriations doesn’t mean Donald Trump has to release them, because Russ Vought told him the Constitution no longer applies to him. By law, the funds were supposed to be released on July 1, but again, laws are but playthings for Great Leader, who am the Law.

As Education Week explains, American school districts and state school agencies had foolishly gotten into the habit of thinking things remained somewhat normal after the Ascension to the Throne of Mad King Donald.

Thousands of school districts and dozens of states that had banked on those funds to cover staff salaries, vendor contracts, curriculum materials, technology tools, and other priorities will now have to consider slashing student services—including some mandated by federal law—or tapping other funding sources if the federal money doesn’t show up on time or at all.

We believe the operative cliché here is from former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, regarding the Medicaid cuts in the Senate’s version of the Big Murder Bill: “They’ll get over it.” Not like they have much choice, because this is Donald Trump’s country now, and not even the courts are allowed to tell him what to do anymore. At least, not in time for summer programs schools had already budgeted for.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump does everything for a reason.

Personal gain, revenge, sadism, Putin and billionaire orders, etc.

[underpants]

4. Yep. As someone posted yesterday, this Everglades jail is performative art

For the sake of goading on MAGA.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes it is an episode of the reality TV show playing in his head.

Done to impress his viewers and make him look powerful and important.

[Passages]

2. NAACP is suing him, thank goodness.

[gab13by13]

3. It's also illegal, but whatever.

The lower courts are neutered and the Supreme Court is bribed.

[peggysue2]

6. Yes, Trump is a mega-prick, but . . .

Withholding funds from the Education Department is part of the Plan to assuage the donors, the theocrats, the Project 2025 people for whom education is the enemy unless controlled and contorted into a propaganda tool to shape the public into loyal subjects. It's also a revenue stream. Kill public education and allow only charter/voucher schools run by the rich, the feckless, the ideologically pure.

Ignorance is freedom.

We can thin out the herd while we're at it. No more special programs or curriculum for the disabled, the special needs, etc.

Only the strong and willing survive. Only the strong and willing are productive.

This goes beyond being a prick. This is all about power and control.

Dystopia here we come!

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. What you'd expect from a crook who stiffed his contractors. Promise to pay schools, then say "fuck you, make me"

because he hates schools. They serve the general populace, whom he despises, and have a tendency to educate people to be bright enough to see he's a criminal. Stephen Miller needs more less-educated white people to replace the non-whites he's imprisoning/chucking out of the US, in the lowest-paying, physically-hard jobs. Undocumented immigrants take the worst jobs because they have to keep their heads down; Miller needs people who will do what they're told without having an alternative.

[Midnight Writer]

8. And he's withholding Congressionally approved aid to Ukraine...again.

He'll do the same shit he got impeached for in his last term just so he can rub it into everyone's face.