Assistant Leader Neguse Slams President Trump’s Reported Plan to Close the Department of Education

Washington, D.C. — Yesterday, House Assistant Minority Leader Joe Neguse (CO-02) took to the House Floor to deliver a speech on public reports that the Trump Administration is preparing an Executive Order to dismantle the Department of Education.

NEGUSE: Mr. Speaker, recent reports suggest that President Trump may attempt to dismantle the Department of Education unilaterally. 

An Executive Order of this nature would be catastrophic for the tens of millions of students and teachers in schools across our nation, including in the great state of Colorado. 

It would undercut support for children learning to read and write. 

It would, in my view, scrap key programs for high school students looking to get their college degree. 

And abandon hardworking educators, schools and students in rural and low-income communities. 

Mr. Speaker, any effort to unilaterally dismantle this department would be clearly unconstitutional and unlawful. 

And House Democrats will use every tool available to us to stop it 

 I yield back.