It's Friday, March 28, 2025. I'm Albert Boller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, bureaucrats love bureaucracies, and one bureaucracy tends to want to protect the other bureaucracy.

It's a mutual defense pact.

And that's at least part of what we see with all the headlines coming out of Washington

and the energy coming from the Trump administration to shut down some federal agencies, bureaucracies.

Most importantly, the Department of Education.

We've talked about that at length, including the fact that it didn't

exist until the 1970s, and that it basically has become a very large swamp in itself, a large

part, a large bureaucracy there in Washington, D.C. And even though it provides only about 10%

of the funding for most local school districts on average,

it has a bureaucratic reach far into just about everything that's taught, every school that exists.

And yet it doesn't exist in a power vacuum.

Obviously, at least a part of what makes the Department of Education this massive federal bureaucracy.

So politicized is the fact that it was

created by politics. It is funded by politicians. It is right in the middle of the political

swamp. That's just the way it works. But it's also true that the Department of Education is

highly politicized because the world of education is highly politicized. What do I mean by that? Well, number one,

the people who are in office in so many of these agencies, and by that I mean the continuing

bureaucrats, not so much those who are identified as politicals, those are political appointments,

but the ongoing career administrators overwhelmingly, it's pretty evident that their commitments are to the left.

And it's a reinforcing, a mutually reinforcing pact because you have the elites, say, in colleges and

universities, particularly in education schools, which are almost never the strongest schools,

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