U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) applauded U.S. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon for terminating almost half of its employees this week, calling it a "good start."
According to McMahon, who said President Donald Trump had instructed the mass layoffs, the move reflects the department's "commitment to efficiency, accountability, and ensuring that resources are directed where they matter most: to students, parents, and teachers."
Tuberville, a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said the only thing the Department of Education was "good for is some kind of woke indoctrination" and "helping teachers unions."
"I've been in education all my life," Tuberville told members of the press on Wednesday. "I think the Department of Education needs to be completely shut down here in D.C. because every state has its own Department of Education."
"The only thing the Department of Education is good for is some kind of woke indoctrination, helping teachers unions. Now listen, I'm for teachers first, administrators second. We've got to get more teachers in the classroom, we've got to start teaching reading, writing, math, history, science, the things that need to be taught, but we can't do it here from Washington, D.C. We need to send the money spent up here back to the states and let them educate our kids. It's the biggest factor that we've got to get straight in our country if we're going to get back to greatness, as President Trump says."
Ahead of her nomination, Tuberville met with McMahon and said she was "the right person to clean out the bureaucratic nightmare at the Department of Education."
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