Senate Democrats are blasting Education Secretary Linda McMahon, accusing her of acting unlawfully after she began shifting major federal education programs to other agencies.
The Trump administration said the moves are part of its effort to return more control over education to the states.
In a letter dated Wednesday, Democrat Sens. Patty Murray of Washington, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, and Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who caucuses with Democrats, said McMahon’s reorganization plan is “illegal” and a threat to the department’s very existence.
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