April 2 (UPI) -- A group of House Democrats met with Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon Wednesday to discuss how her agency will function after drastic cuts were made by the Trump administration.
Representatives including Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, and Mark Takano, D- Calif., a senior member of the Education and Workforce Committee spoke with the press after the afternoon meeting.
Takano asked how civil rights would be enforced after the wide dismissals of personnel from the department's Office of Civil Rights, and he said that on that issue he was "still not clear where that stands."
Escobar said of the meeting that "the overarching theme," about how the department will function is that the Trump administration is "cutting the bureaucracy and we're sending the money to the states."
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