The Brett Cooper Show
It’s Time to Abolish the Department of Education — Here’s Why | Episode 4
Mon, 10 Feb 2025
President Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE have set their sights on slashing the Department of Education — here’s why that’s a good thing.The Brett Cooper Show on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@bbrettcooperBy joining Cooper Confidential you are directly supporting me and my team. You’ll get ad-free episodes, exclusive ‘Dear Brett” videos, and a private newsletter. Sign up now: https://cooperconfidential.supercast....NEW MERCH IS LIVE! Order now:http://brettcoopershop.com/Get 3 months free and check out over 10,000 guided prayers and meditations that will all help you grow closer to God when you sign up athttp://hallow.com/cooperSilencer Shop is the easiest and best way to get a suppressor. Visit http://silencershop.com/cooper today!
Chapter 1: What are the challenges in abolishing the Department of Education?
But the thing is, even though this executive order would be historic, it would be hugely impactful, Trump can't just abolish the Department of Education with a signature. The Department of Education was created through an act of Congress, so it must be abolished by a vote in Congress. However, Welcome back to another episode of The Brett Cooper Show. We have some updates for you all.
I'm so honored. I'm so excited to inform you all that I've gotten a pop filter. So the days of me blasting in your ears and you hearing literally every single piece of my enunciation, Hopefully those days are over. Also guys, I read your comments. I removed the headphones. You know, I got these really cool headphones that you saw in the previous episode.
And also you'll see them in an episode that I pre-recorded for next week. But I got these really cool headphones. They're from the 70s. We got them fixed up so that I could use them. I put it on and it just didn't feel right. And oddly, I just felt so weird wearing them when I saw comments being like, Brett, you don't need the headphones anymore. So I have officially ditched them.
We're back to the original setting. Happy to be here. But guys, today we need to talk about something that is near and dear to my heart. We need to talk about the state of education.
If you guys have been watching my content for the last three years, even before the last three years, because this is something I would write about constantly and talk about in my social media videos, we need to talk about education and more specifically what the future holds for education under President Trump, because Trump has been signing
executive orders left and right, and I know it is pissing off the left because they think that he is abusing his power, but honestly, he is doing exactly what he promised us. I mean, the theme of Trump's presidency thus far is promises made, promises kept, and listen, we are getting exactly what we voted for, and we are very happy.
I mean, from keeping men out of women's sports just a couple of days ago, which was just incredibly historic if you guys have not seen that photo, of Trump signing the executive order surrounded by young female athletes. It was, I mean, truly brought tears to my eyes. So many years of hard work came to that moment. It was just incredible.
I mean, from that to directing our government to unseal the JFK records, so much has happened. And next up in the slate of executive orders is apparently the future of the Department of Education and TLDR Trump wants to abolish it. But as are many things in our political landscape right now, education is a very heated issue.
And a lot of people don't understand how this would work if Trump would even be able to abolish it. They don't understand why people even want to get rid of the Department of Education. And they're very concerned with what happens after the Department of Education has been abolished.
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Chapter 2: Why is education reform a critical issue?
However, with an executive order, Trump can break it apart. And that is what people are speculating that he'll be doing. Here is how Ryan broke it down.
We want the Department of Education, certain things in the Department of Education to still happen. We want Title IX to be enforced, right? We don't want biological women to compete with biological men in sports. That is partly Title IX.
My guess is he's probably going to move Title I into, basically give it back to the states almost immediately and have very limited federal interaction as far as distribution of state money goes. And then Title IX will probably get moved to the Department of Justice, is what I imagine, or or maybe Department of HHS, Department of Health and Human Services.
Whatever they have to preserve, Pell grants will get moved to maybe the Treasury or something like that. Whatever they have to preserve will get moved to other federal departments. The Department of Education will probably be a building with no lights on.
So TLDR, how this would work, is that many of the original core functions of the department, pre-Department of Education, pre-Jimmy Carter era, they would still exist. Title I would be protected. It would be just moved under a different jurisdiction. Title IX, everything that we fought for, for women, for protecting women, that would be protected. It would just be moved.
It would all be reallocated and shifted around to break up this power monopoly that this department has over our education system and over the states. And you just gotta know, and I love this, that the teachers unions are losing their minds. Because remember, they were the ones who wanted this in the first place. They are the ones who benefit the most.
They are the ones who have the most power over everything this department does. So I want you to take a listen to my good friend, Randy Weingarten. Randy Weingarten, if you didn't know, is one of the people that I despise most on the face of the earth. She's the president of the country's largest and most powerful teachers union.
And she recently did an interview where she was screeching about Trump's plans for the Department of Education and how this would take money away from students and instead line the pockets of billionaires.
Where's the money going? Who's taking it? Are they trying to take that money that kids get for tax cuts for billionaires? What's going on? That's why we have to see what they're doing. It is illegal to take that money out of children's mouths and give it to billionaires.
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