Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California claimed Monday that the elimination of the Department of Education by a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) review would put students “in jeopardy.”
President-elect Donald Trump announced that Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy would head DOGE, with a mandate to “slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures and restructure Federal Agencies” Tuesday. Khanna claimed the move would be “horrifying” due to its effects on students.
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“Well, it’s horrifying, and I think it doesn’t understand history. First of all, look at the real world impact that that would have,” Khanna told “CNN News Central” host Kate Bolduan. “It would mean kids who are getting Pell Grants to be able to go to college, that would be in jeopardy. It would mean a lot of schools, Title One schools that get federal funding, that would be in jeopardy. If you have a child who has autism or special needs, your — education of your child, if they go to public school, would be in jeopardy.”
“So as a student of public schools and as someone who took out over $100,000 of loans to have a shot in America, I’m deeply concerned. And it was our investment in education from 1910 to 1940, where we went to high school first before Europe, that made the American dream possible and the GI Bill and made America a superpower. So I’m deeply concerned with just this kind of blanket, let’s cut education,” Khanna claimed.
Ramaswamy told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo that DOGE would be looking to make “mass reductions” and that some would be “deleted outright” during a Sunday appearance on Fox News, but did not name any specific agencies.
“We expect mass reductions. We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright. We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated. We expect massive cuts in federal contractors and others who are over-billing the federal government. So, yes, we expect all of the above, and I think people will be surprised by, I think, how quickly we’re able to move with some of those changes given the legal backdrop the Supreme Court has given us,” Ramaswamy said.
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