Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she was pushing to abolish the Department of Education because "crazy insane women" ruined it.
During a Thursday interview on Real America's Voice, Greene defended her legislation to defund America's federal education agency.
"This is a very simple concept," Greene insisted. "Ending the Department of Education transfers the power back to the states and allows the states to have all the money, keep it themselves, to fund education in their state."
"This is one of the most important things we can do to shrink the size of the federal government, rein in the out-of-control policies, practices, and spending of the federal government," she continued. "Take it out of the hands of crazy, insane women like Randi Weingarten, the president of the teachers union, and put it back in the states where parents can have more control over their children's education."
"We feel like this is the right thing to do and so does President Trump, who is definitely looking," she said.
However, Weingarten was not a federal employee but president of the American Federation of Teachers, founded 64 years before the Department of Education was created.
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Although the Department of Education does not provide much funding for local schools, it does fund Title 1, which helps lower-income communities, and those covered under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
The department collects data on higher education and student achievements to provide transparency and analysis to taxpayers. It also manages $1.6 trillion in federal student loan debt and federal student aid applications.
