America concerned over deep cuts to Department of Education

(NBC) – Concern and confusion over the Trump Administration’s deep cuts to the Department of Education slashing its workforce in half.  While schools are largely funded and run at the state and local level, the Federal Education Department protects students with disabilities, investigates discrimination cases and helps low-income school districts.

An outraged retired teacher, speaks out, “without the Department of Ed, there’s a lot of America, especially rural America, where kids aren’t really going to have a chance to break out of poverty,” said Bill Bimber.

Fired Federal Worker, Sheria Smith lost her job in Texas, she worked at one of six regional offices education officials said were shut down.   Smith said, “my family, is now trying to figure out how we overcome the loss of my income.”

President Trump wants to abolish the Education Department though that would take an Act of Congress, but Trump defends the mass firings and said this, without evidence, “I feel very badly, but many of them don’t work at all.  Many of them never showed up to work.”

Wyoming’s Superintendent of Public Instruction among those celebrating the changes, “streamlining those funds to the states and putting us back in charge of our kids,” said Megan Degenfelder, Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Even as protests against the Department of Government Efficiency grow across the country another topic escalating is the Trump Trade War, President Donald Trump said, “The United States of America is going to take back a lot of what was stolen from it by other countries.”

With top allies retaliating against the President’s new tariffs on global steel and aluminum imports.  The European Union announcing tariffs on everything from American beef, to bourbon, and Harley Davidson motorcycles.

Canada slapping 25% tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of American goods, this as the U.S. and Canada prepare for trade talks on Friday.