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Neither. Most of it is grants/loans to students or grants to schools (e.g. for special ed programs, facility improvements, and to provide additional money to po

Neither. Most of it is grants/loans to students or grants to schools (e.g. for special ed programs, facility improvements, and to provide additional money to poor school districts). The majority of the budget goes to Federal Student Aid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Student_Aid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Student_Aid. See also https://usafacts.org/explainers/what-does-the-us-government-do/agency/us-department-of-education/ https://usafacts.org/explainers/what-does-the-us-government-...

bayarearefugee 2y ago
And like many of Trump's actions a dismantled DoE is going to disproportionately hurt "red" states: https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/67928bd52f13ca5e55c2ee89/Image-shows-what-percent-to-state-education-funding-comes-from-the-federal/960x0.png https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/67928b... Good job "owning the libs" MAGA voters.
- scarecrowbob 2y ago
  This isn't quite the "gotcha" that a lot of folks think it is, and I say this as someone polticaly far to the left of the US Democratic Party. Consider the closing down of public pools when they started desegregating them. It might seem like a loss (and I agree that it is), but if you feel you're insulated from the effects then it's not a problem so much as a bad thing that you're happy is happening to other, undeserving people. And a lot of folks are either materially in a position where they aren't super impacted by that kind of thing (they can build their own pools) or they are so far into a fantasy about aspiring to be that kind of person that they don't see themselves as impacted. At the same time, while I total understand the ire at that voting bloc (they are no friends of mine), I do have a lot of poor friends in red states and it's been very hard to muster any enjoyment of watching folks who live under highly authoritarian systems (often gerrymandered to the point of intractability) get some imaginary "comeuppance". Consider that "if you feel you're insulated from the effects [because you live in a blue state] then it's not a problem so much as a bad thing that you're happy is happening to other, undeserving people."
  - boroboro4 2y ago
    Did you figure out how to talk to these people?

bayarearefugee 2y ago

And like many of Trump's actions a dismantled DoE is going to disproportionately hurt "red" states: https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/67928bd52f13ca5e55c2ee89/Image-shows-what-percent-to-state-education-funding-comes-from-the-federal/960x0.png https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/67928b... Good job "owning the libs" MAGA voters.

scarecrowbob 2y ago
This isn't quite the "gotcha" that a lot of folks think it is, and I say this as someone polticaly far to the left of the US Democratic Party. Consider the closing down of public pools when they started desegregating them. It might seem like a loss (and I agree that it is), but if you feel you're insulated from the effects then it's not a problem so much as a bad thing that you're happy is happening to other, undeserving people. And a lot of folks are either materially in a position where they aren't super impacted by that kind of thing (they can build their own pools) or they are so far into a fantasy about aspiring to be that kind of person that they don't see themselves as impacted. At the same time, while I total understand the ire at that voting bloc (they are no friends of mine), I do have a lot of poor friends in red states and it's been very hard to muster any enjoyment of watching folks who live under highly authoritarian systems (often gerrymandered to the point of intractability) get some imaginary "comeuppance". Consider that "if you feel you're insulated from the effects [because you live in a blue state] then it's not a problem so much as a bad thing that you're happy is happening to other, undeserving people."
- boroboro4 2y ago
  Did you figure out how to talk to these people?