Democrat Lobs Longshot Impeachment Attack On Trump’s Education Secretary

Democratic Rep. Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon announced a long-shot plan to impeach U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.

“Secretary McMahon has betrayed students, families, and educators by dismantling and demolishing the Department of Education, something she does not have authority to do,” Bonamici’s office stated in a press release Wednesday. McMahon says Democrats are missing the point.

“Congress created the Department and it would take an Act of Congress to shut it down,” the press release states. “About 90 percent of students in this country attend public schools. Students have the right to equal access without discrimination and students with disabilities have the right to a free and appropriate education. I will not stand by and let Sec. McMahon destroy the federal programs, funding, and research that are critical to public schools and the millions of students they serve.”

Bonamici defended allowing men to compete in women’s sports as ranking member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in 2023, the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported.

“It speaks volumes that House Democrats think an impeachable offense is working to improve student outcomes and reduce the federal bureaucracy,” McMahon said in a statement to the DCNF. “They must not be bothered by chronic failures of our education system that result in historic low test scores, a failed FAFSA form rollout, classrooms shuttered during COVID, designating parents as terrorists, and males in female locker rooms.”