During his 1980 presidential campaign, former President Ronald Reagan ran on shutting down the Department of Education, then in its infancy. But he couldn’t even get a Republican in Congress to introduce a bill to do it.
Ever since, Republican presidential candidates have made the same campaign promise, only to know not really what to do with the department when their friends in Congress tell them to pound sand.
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