A crowd of outraged congressional Democrats attempted to force their way into the Department of Education (ED) building Friday to protest President Donald Trump’s proposed plan to shut down the agency.
The Trump administration has begun drafting an executive order to eliminate ED and direct Congress to pass legislation to officially dissolve the agency in order to ensure public education is managed by the states. Democratic Congress members, including California Rep. Maxine Waters, lamented the security guard as he denied them access into the building.
“What are they afraid of? They know that we’re here,” Waters said.
“Were you told, are you making this decision to stand in front of this door on your own behalf? On behalf of the Department of Education, were you to come out here and block members of Congress from complying with us? Were you told to stand here or did you…
