On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stated that the cutting of the Department of Education’s staff is the first step to closing down the department altogether, but “we know we’ll have to work with Congress to get that accomplished.” And that she wants money to go to the states, “Perhaps block grants without so many strings and red tape attached to it.”
Host Laura Ingraham asked, “Now, is this the first step on the road to a total shutdown?”
McMahon answered, “Yes, actually, it is. Because that was the president’s mandate, as directed to me, clearly, is to shut down the Department of Education, which we know we’ll have to work with Congress to get that accomplished. But what we did today was to take the first step of eliminating what I think is bureaucratic bloat. And that’s not to…
