Republicans in the US Senate call on Trump’s administration to release billions in Frozen School Finaning. (Photo of Getty Images)
Washington – Republican members of the US Senate called on the management director of the and budget director of Russ Vought In a letter on Wednesday To free $ 6.8 billion In the case of K-12 schools, which is suspended by the Trump administration.
The letter was the main point of friction between President Donald Trump and influential legislators in his own party, when his administration tests borders The authority of the executive department In the reference of federal dollars, the congress has already appropriated. Each country has millions of school financing as a result of freezing.
Wednesday’s letter came after Supreme Court He temporarily explained the road at the beginning of this week, so that the administration would carry out mass dismissals and a plan to reduce the Education Department, which Trump ordered at the beginning of this year.
Just a day before the date of July 1, in which these funds are usually paid, because teachers are planning the upcoming school year, the education department announced that it would not be financing several programs, including programs before and after school, migration education and learning in English, including initiatives.
“The cessation of these funds will harm students, families and local economies,” 10 GOP senators wrote, many of whom committe members make decisions regarding expenditure. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican from Western Virginia and chairman of the Senate Subcommittee for work, health and social welfare, education and related agencies.
Dream. Susan Collins from Maine, chairwoman of the wider commission for Senate funds, also signed a letter along with: sense. Katie Britt from Alabama, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, John Boozman from Arkansas, Mitch McConnell from Kentucky, Deb Fischer from Nebrask, John Hoeven from the northern part of the southern Dakota and Jim Guardian in Kentucky from Kentucky. Virginia.
“The decision to suspend this financing is contrary to the goal of President Trump, which is the return of K-12 education to the States,” the senators invited. “This financing goes directly to the States and local school districts, in which local leaders decide how these funds are spent, because, as we know, local communities know how to best serve students and families.”
Newsroom states asked Office of Management and the budget for commentary on the letter.
Meanwhile, a lot of Congress Democrats and one independent – 32 senators AND 150 home democrats – Linda McMahon, secretary of Vought and education, called in two letters sent last week to immediately ponderous down funds that they think are suspended “illegally”.
Democratic general lawyers and governors also pushed these suspended funds when a coalition of 24 states and a district of Colombia sued the administration At the beginning of this week.
