Murray, DeLauro, Baldwin on Trump and McMahon Continuing to Illegally Dismantle Department of Education, Transferring Career & Technical Education Responsibilities to DOL

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee; Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee; and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, issued the following statement on the Department of Education's latest actions announced today to illegally transfer responsibility over career and technical education (CTE) programs and adult education programs to the Department of Labor (DOL), as Secretary Linda McMahon continues working to fulfill President Trump's pledge to dismantle the Department of Education.

"Donald Trump and Linda McMahon are continuing their attempts to illegally dismantle the Department of Education-and they are risking critical career and technical and adult education programs. The steps this administration is attempting to take require an act of Congress, and to reiterate: no such act has been passed. If they are allowed to ignore the law and dismantle this part of the Department of Education, what other funding that our children and families rely on is next? Linda McMahon and Donald Trump need to follow the plain text of the law-period. Republicans should join us in insisting that the laws we pass get followed-and to stand up for students and families nationwide in the face of this administration's continued attacks on our public education system."

In a detailed letter in June, Senator Murray, Congresswoman DeLauro, Senator Baldwin, and House Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA-03) called on the Department of Education to immediately cease its illegal plan to transfer these responsibilities to DOL and laid out why the plan is both harmful and illegal. The lawmakers also called out these moves in a July statement.

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