In the first weeks of the new administration, several Democratic lawmakers were denied admission to the US Department of Education on Friday in an amazing exhibition of the limits of the Congress authority.
California correspondent Maxin Waters told a man that a man said, blocking more than a dozen Democrats from the doors at the Washington Department’s offices. The man, who was not identified as the name, said he was a federal employee working for the department.
“Did Elon Kasturi hire you?” Vermont’s representative asked Beka Ballent.
California representative Mark Takano shouted, “This is a grief,” when he and his comrades were physically prevented from entering the building. “We have monitoring responsibilities,” he said during a failed attempt to enter. “
The video, which was seized by several members, was another incident that intensified the administration’s efforts to renew the Federal Bureaucracy.
“They are preventing members of the Congress from entering the Education Department! Elon is allowed and not people? Illegal,” Florida representative Maxwell Frost wrote in a post.
However, it is unclear if the federal employee denies any laws by refusing to enter. Although Congress members have a role in monitoring federal agencies, it is commonly used by listening to power and implementing policies.
And when the Constitution gives the Congress the authority to set up offices of the federal government, it is unclear whether individual members are given unreasonable access to these buildings.
Legislators have expressed disappointment over the widespread changes within the federal government, where Elon Musk – the world’s richest man and Mr Musk, the head of the government’s performance, the head of the department’s performance. Is provided.
The deadlock is pursuing the promise of President Trump’s election campaign and will eventually shut down the Department of Education, which he as an agency injects the highly -related ideology of race and gender in the country’s public schools. Presented as a giving agency.
“We will move everything to the states, where it is concerned,” he said during the election speech. “They can make education individual and do this with love for their children.”
Since taking office, several extensive actions by Mr Trump have directly affected the Department of Education and its workforce.
Last month, employees of the Department of Education were kept on administrative departure. The department cited guidance from the Personal Management Office, which instructed federal agencies to present plans to reduce staff associated with diversity, equality and involvement by the end of the day on January 31.
Fearful of further efforts and threats to restore the department, Democratic lawmakers sent a letter late on Wednesday seeking a meeting with Acting Secretary Education Secretary Dennis L. Carter. When his request was not answered, he showed him at the headquarters of the department on Friday morning, just to refuse to enter himself.
No official explanation was given about the refusal of admission, and the arrival of armed federal officers became more aggravated by the lawmakers.
“We are not dangerous,” Mr Frost wrote in a social media post. “We want to represent our people here.”
Similar scenes were played in other agencies during the week where Democratic lawmakers were shut down, including the Department of Treasury offices, the US Agency for International Development and Environmental Protection Agency.
