In a March 16 podcast interview, Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., said the Trump administration is right to target the Education Department for cuts.
“The federal Department of Education spends—has a budget of about $280 billion a year. Less than 25% goes to educating our students,” she said. “So where does the other $220 billion go? It goes to a bureaucracy, it goes to a consultant, and that consultant then donates money back to the Democrats, and then it goes to a different consultant, and then it goes to” a nongovernmental organization.
The department handles a lot of money. But budget figures show a large majority of the Education Department’s 2024 spending was directed to students.
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