July 26, 2025. Ten days ago, 10

Republicans senators wrote to Office of Management and Budget

Director Russell Vote, asking him to release the funds Congress

appropriated in March to support education. Vote was a key author

of Project 2025, which claims the federal government has been taken over by a radical left

cabal and calls for the decimation of that government in favor of state power, enabling the

construction of a religious government.

Vote was central to the cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency, or Doggy,

and has recently pushed Congress to put its stamp of approval on $9.4 billion of those cuts.

Over the objections of Democrats, Republicans agreed earlier this

month to approve the cuts the administration made to laws passed by Congress, known as

recisions, for the first time in decades. Trump signed that measure into law on Thursday.

The Constitution charges the president with making sure the laws passed by Congress are faithfully executed, and the 1974 Impoundment Control Act prohibits the executive branch from withholding funds appropriated by Congress,

leading lawmakers to object that the Trump administration

is breaking the law and trying to take over Congress's job of writing laws.

Senator Roger Wicker, a Republican of Mississippi, said of the rescission package,

let's not make a habit of this. Let's not consider this a precedent. But vote says

those cuts are just the beginning. In March, Congress approved nearly $7 billion in education

funding that was supposed to be released by July 1st. But the administration announced on June 30th,

it would not do so, saying officials were

conducting a review. The funds included money to recruit and train teachers and to support

arts and music education in low-income areas, as well as funds for children learning English

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