{"id":2412820,"date":"2025-03-12T12:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnson-fully-in-support-of-eliminating-education-department-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:14:01","slug":"johnson-fully-in-support-of-eliminating-education-department-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnson-fully-in-support-of-eliminating-education-department-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson &#8216;fully in support&#8217; of eliminating Education Department &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohnson-fully-in-support-of-eliminating-education-department-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2412820&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Mike Johnson &lsquo;fully in support&rsquo; of eliminating Education Department<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2036851\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaker of the House<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) assured that Congress is &ldquo;fully in support&rdquo; of Education Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/linda-mcmahon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Linda McMahon<\/a>&lsquo;s efforts to eliminate her department at the request of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is fresh from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3343762\/house-gop-funding-johnson-confident-measure-pass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">successful vote<\/a> in the House to fund the government to avoid a shutdown. The Senate will vote on that later this week. Meanwhile, he supported removing the &ldquo;bureaucratic bloat&rdquo; that McMahon claims has befallen the department. On Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Fox and Friends<\/em> Wednesday, Johnson responded to McMahon, acknowledging she will need Congress&rsquo;s help.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3344917\/demokraatit-party-wins-greenland-elections\/\">Pro-independence liberal party wins upset in Greenland elections<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3344994\/rapper-lil-yachty-slams-black-lives-matter-as-a-scam\/\">Rapper Lil Yachty slams Black Lives Matter as a &#8216;scam&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3345032\/congressional-republicans-demand-ioc-align-with-trump-transgender-athletes-order-los-angeles-olympics\/\">Congressional Republicans demand IOC align with Trump trans athletes order ahead of LA Olympics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;[McMahon] is talking about efficiency and accountability. She is talking about directing resources to the places they matter the most, and that&rsquo;s to the hands of the local school boards, to parents who can direct their children&rsquo;s education,&rdquo; Johnson said. &ldquo;So this is a time for change. I think this will serve students, parents, teachers, administrators better to have that down at the local level. And Secretary McMahon is bringing that change about. This is a longtime coming. You will have a greater choice for parents and students. You will have a lot better outcomes, I think. This is something we all applaud.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2839882&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=abd176b0f11083f5493d8d34019bc7b9\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The speaker agreed that the Education Department has used taxpayer dollars as a way of &ldquo;enriching teacher&rsquo;s unions,&rdquo; which has resulted in the United States &ldquo;falling behind other countries in education standards and the test scores and all the rest.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>However, Johnson&rsquo;s Democratic colleagues in the House disagree with the changes to education. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3233612\/ro-khanna-concerned-threat-against-education-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"raised concerns\">raised concerns<\/a> that Title I schools that educate special needs children would be in &ldquo;jeopardy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3336070\/multiagency-task-force-reviews-columbia-funding-over-inaction-antisemitism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MULTIAGENCY TASK FORCE REVIEWS&nbsp;COLUMBIA&nbsp;FUNDING OVER &lsquo;INACTION&rsquo; ON ANTISEMITISM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The department has already lost staff and will continue to lay off more. Of its initial 4,133 staff, 259 accepted a deferred resignation package, 313 accepted a $25,000 separation payment, and 63 probationary employees were let go last month. In addition, 1,315 more people will soon be laid off, leaving a little more than half the original workforce at 2,183. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Education Department, combined with the Health and Human Services Department and General Services Administration, determined whether universities violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by allowing protests to escalate to antisemitism. The multiagency task force&rsquo;s first act under President Donald Trump&rsquo;s executive order on measures to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3292730\/all-executive-orders-actions-trump-first-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">combat antisemitism<\/a> was to evaluate Columbia University. The campus is already combating rumors of layoffs and lab closures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2036851\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2036851\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Johnson \u2018fully in support\u2019 of eliminating Education Department Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) assured that Congress is \u201cfully in support\u201d of Education Secretary Linda McMahon\u2018s efforts to eliminate her department at the request of President Donald Trump. Johnson is fresh from a successful vote in the House to fund the government to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2412821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25006729537477.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25006729537477.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2412821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}