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Exclusive: House Republicans Probe Education
Department’s ‘Partisan’ Bidenbucks Scheme

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Posted By: earlybird, 3/12/2024 7:31:46 PM

House Republicans are demanding the Department of Education forfeit information and records related to its use of taxpayer dollars to conduct partisan get-out-the-vote efforts that benefit Democrats, The Federalist has learned. In their Tuesday letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, senior Republicans on the House Administration Committee and the Education and Workforce Committee pressed the Biden appointee over the agency’s use of Federal Work-Study (FWS) funds — which are used to provide part-time campus jobs to help students with tuition costs — to “support the Biden Administration’s campaign efforts during the 2024 election cycle.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: chumley 3/12/2024 7:53:54 PM (No. 1676283)
Shut the entire department down. It should have been done years ago. Kids are graduating stupider than before it was created. Complete failure.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: anniebc 3/12/2024 8:09:15 PM (No. 1676292)
Lock down their money sources until they comply and then never restore it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: red1066 3/12/2024 9:59:32 PM (No. 1676329)
Just one of many federal departments that need elimination.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Trigger2 3/13/2024 3:16:10 AM (No. 1676407)
This is just another reason why funds for the corrupt Education Dept should be removed. Starve them Congress.
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