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Donald Trump on Friday said he had called on the U.S. Treasury Department to re-examine the tax-exempt status and funding for universities and school districts, following days of threats to cut federal education funding for schools that don't reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic.
"Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education. Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status and/or Funding, which will be taken away if this Propaganda or Act Against Public Policy continues. Our children must be Educated, not Indoctrinated!" he tweeted.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-us-treasury-to-examine-schools-tax-status-funding/ar-BB16zZp1?li=BBnb7Kz
What a waste of time and government resources.
onecaliberal
(32,950 posts)States fund schools. Title I, Title III, Title VI, Migrant and a few others is all trump can touch for public school funding.
Botany
(70,627 posts)"Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education. Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status and/or Funding, which will be taken away if this Propaganda or Act Against Public Policy continues. Our children must be Educated, not Indoctrinated!" he tweeted.
BTW does Trump even know that school districts are funded by local property taxes?
secondwind
(16,903 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,188 posts)air as usual.
ScratchCat
(2,016 posts)He's going to be Baker Acted sooner rather than later.
(for the record, the Treasury Dept is not reviewing anything about public school funding)
sinkingfeeling
(51,484 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Keep the pressure on.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Joe into the WH ahead of January?
eppur_se_muova
(36,309 posts)Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States...
He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavoured to... cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_allegations_of_misuse_of_the_Internal_Revenue_Service#Nixon