The $280 billion a year spent by the federal government does not need to go to bureaucrats, but instead in block grant money sent to schools in each state across the country to use for education, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, said on Newsmax Saturday.
“You know, 40 years I coached,” the Alabama Republican said on Newsmax’s “Saturday Agenda.” “I’ve been in high schools all across this country, almost every state. And they need help, but they need help in terms of money that goes directly to something that’s going to affect and help education — not the bureaucrats that just sit around, make up rules, make up different, different laws in terms of taking money from the states and taking away from our education.”
Meanwhile, the Department of Education can’t be fully shuttered without a Senate majority vote, and Tuberville said that as there will be no Democrats voting to close the department, downsizing it will have to happen.
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