McMahon detailed how she hopes the administration can look at the grants “over-seized” that had money appropriated by Congress as part of a larger effort to rid the department of waste and provide the best education to states. When asked if Congress will help with the Trump administration’s bid to wind down the Department of Education, McMahon said she is “very hopeful” this can be a reality, and that she has already spoken to lawmakers on this partnership.
“I hope by the time that we’re really ready to turn education back to the states and turn that funding back to agencies where it originated, the Title I funding and special needs funding used to come through the department of, that time, Health Education and Welfare, which is now HHS,” McMahon stated on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.
McMahon added that she has already spoken to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about returning this to HHS. She then detailed how the Education Department was set up in 1980 and allowed education funding to go to another location, and that the Trump administration can now return this funding “to where it was.”
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The education secretary also cited how student loans need a proper upheaval, as the “responsibility” of repaying these loans has been lost, especially during the Biden administration. She added that there has been “no collection process” of outstanding student loans since March 2020, and that this is a burden that taxpayers should not have to carry.
Earlier this month, Trump announced that the Small Business Administration will take over federal student loan programs, with SBA head Kelly Loeffler overseeing this going forward. It comes after the president signed an executive order designed to unwind the Department of Education, which would take an act of Congress to be fully implemented.
