The dismantling of the Department of Education began Tuesday, “drastic measures” that Mercedes Schlapp told Newsmax are necessary to pry the country’s education hierarchy out of the federal government and give it back to the states.

Schlapp, former White House director of strategic communications in President Donald Trump’s first term in office, joined conservative voice Larry Elder on “Rob Schmitt Tonight” to react to the news that the DOE began cutting half of its 4,000 employees earlier in the day.

“When you have to cut down expenses, when you’re working on balancing the budget, you’re going to need to make significant changes,” Schlapp said. “And that’s why you have seen, in the case of the Department of Education, taking such drastic measures, because they want to take education back to the states.”

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