WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS), announced she led her colleagues in calling on the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) to open an investigation into the Trump administration's moves to illegally dismantle and eventually abolish the Department of Education (ED). Specifically, the Senators are probing Trump's push to transfer Education grant programs to agencies with no expertise in education policy, such as the Department of Labor (DOL), as Trump looks to offload programs from ED in his pursuit of shutting down the Department.
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