Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 32
Dramatically scale back or eliminate the Education Department
Never delivered“[paraphrase] We're going to cut the Department of Education way, way down.”
- Promised
- , Campaign interviews and rallies
- Re-promised
- 10 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Education
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
Congress rejected the administration's proposed cuts each year and appropriated more for the department than it requested. The department was neither eliminated nor significantly reduced in funding. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.