Debunking the Latest Left-Wing Lie About Trump’s Education Policy
“He’s cutting education!” cry the same politicians and media pundits who locked down schools, canceled sports, banned field trips, and muzzled students for two years. Now they pretend to be the defenders of children’s learning?
Let’s get the facts straight.
The Trump administration is not slashing education. It’s slashing waste. The hysteria over “cuts” comes from a willful misunderstanding of what’s actually happening: a strategic downsizing of bloated bureaucracy and a return of power to parents, local school boards, and states.
Trump’s Education Plan: Less Federal Control, More Local Power
Unlike most countries, the U.S. does not have a national curriculum. Education is primarily funded and governed at the state and local level—not Washington. So when the Department of Education sees a reduction, it doesn’t mean classrooms are closing. It means bureaucrats are.
President Trump’s 2025 executive order began the process of dismantling the U.S. Department of Education. While full closure requires Congress, key actions are already underway:
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50% of the department’s workforce has been laid off
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Student loan services may shift to the Small Business Administration
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Nutrition and disability programs may go to Health and Human Services
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School lunch programs remain under the USDA, just as they always have
This is not defunding students. It’s streamlining delivery and cutting middlemen who add cost without benefit.
The Myth of “Program Elimination”
The media loves to scream about programs being “eliminated”—without mentioning that many of these programs were inefficient, redundant, or unwanted by schools.
Take the new Elementary and Secondary Education Flexible Block Grant—a Trump initiative that consolidates 18 separate grant programs into a streamlined $4.7 billion fund. That’s $4 billion less than before, but now states have the power to choose what matters most: school safety, teacher training, academic enrichment, etc.
No more “one size fits all.” Now local districts decide what their students need, not D.C. bureaucrats.
The Truth About TRIO and Work-Study Cuts
Critics are enraged over the proposed elimination of TRIO and Federal Work-Study programs. But here’s the reality:
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TRIO was just one way to support first-gen and low-income students. They still have:
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Pell Grants
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Veteran benefits
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Campus Disability Services
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Work-Study jobs don’t disappear—colleges are simply asked to pay for them themselves.
These changes don’t erase support—they shift responsibility from federal taxpayers to institutions and communities better equipped to make decisions.
Conclusion: Cutting Bureaucracy, Not Education
What the Trump administration is doing is returning education to the people. Cutting federal waste. Trimming ideological bloat. Ending expensive programs that don’t improve learning.
The left wants you to believe fewer bureaucrats means fewer books. It doesn’t. It means more freedom, more flexibility, and more local control.
Trump’s education reforms are not the end of education. They are the end of Washington’s monopoly on it.