Education Sec. McMahon: ‘We Seek to Shrink Federal Bureaucracy, Save Taxpayer Money and Empower States’

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McMAHON: "Thank you for having me today to represent the goal I share with my boss, President Trump, to responsibly eliminate the federal bureaucracy, cut waste, and give education back to states, parents and educators. With your partnership, the fiscal '26 budget will take a significant step toward that goal. We seek to shrink federal bureaucracy, save taxpayer money, and empower states who best know their local needs to manage their education in this country. We have reviewed our programs and identified spinning that does not fulfill the mandate of trust the American people have placed with President Trump. We have cut old contracts that waste enriching private parties at taxpayer expense, suspended grants for illegal DEI programs, and now are putting forward a responsible budget request that reduces department funding by more than 15%. At the same time, we’re working to make American education great again. In our conversations with governors, teachers and parents across the country, we hear cause for accountability and more local control. That’s our goal: to give parents access to the quality education their kids deserve, to fix the broken higher education industry that has misled students into degrees that don’t pay off, and to create safe learning environments.”