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FIRST ON FOX - The American Accountability Foundation, a blimpish authorities probe nonprofit, assembled a "watch-list" of apical bureaucrats astatine the Department of Education who it recommends President-elect Donald Trump should fire.
The nonprofit, which is funded by the blimpish deliberation vessel The Heritage Foundation, published the list connected its website. The AAF assembled 19 "dossiers" naming "America's Most Subversive Education Bureaucrats."
AAF President Tom Jones, a erstwhile Republican legislature staffer, told Fox News Digital that the "public-facing" database was not compiled astatine the behest of the Trump modulation team, but alternatively due to the fact that the blimpish enactment believes it's important that the American radical "understand that there's a batch of civilian servants wrong the national government, and peculiarly wrong the Department of Education, who are not impartial technicians executing connected the docket of the president, but alternatively are ideologues who person an docket that they're consenting to instrumentality contempt the wide absorption from the voters successful November."
"At the extremity of the day, it's fundamentally undemocratic. What you get is simply a radical of radical who don't bespeak the volition of the American radical implementing their docket implicit that of what the American radical said was their volition successful November. At the extremity of the day, what it means is you get a left-wing attack to education, peculiarly higher education," Jones told Fox News Digital. "The higher acquisition strategy successful America is broken. I deliberation the events of past summer, wherever you saw left-wing pro-terrorist groups instrumentality implicit American campuses, and the module and medication enactment them, truly should person been a wake-up telephone for each Americans. And I deliberation this could beryllium a wake-up telephone for this administration."
Jones said those connected the database see individuals who are "serial donors" to Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren and President Biden, arsenic good arsenic different "hard halfway ideologues" who volition prioritize their ain progressive agendas, specified arsenic promoting Biden’s pupil indebtedness "bailouts," expanding regulations connected palmy online people partnerships, and conducting a "witch hunt" against Christian and vocation colleges done the Student Financial Aid Office of Enforcement.
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Jones identified 1 idiosyncratic astatine the Office of Enforcement who "had spent his vocation astatine the Maryland Attorney General's Office investigating vocation colleges and Christian colleges." He pointed to different idiosyncratic who stated that helium would enactment to crook the DOE into a "mini-CFPB," a notation to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Jones described arsenic "essentially conscionable a witch hunt mill that's utilized to analyse organizations of radical that the medication doesn't like." The nonprofit described 1 wide lawyer for the DOE included connected the database arsenic "a starring ineligible advocator for transgender rights successful the statement implicit spiritual exemptions for definite universities."
"These radical are not going to say, you cognize what, 'I hated Trump past week, but connected January 22nd, I'm going to beryllium ace excited astir implementing his acquisition agenda.' Unless these folks are moved retired of their positions wrong the Department of Education, they're going to proceed to enactment down the scenes to onslaught alternatives to accepted four-year institutions," Jones said.
Others named connected the database see a civilian worker wrong the DOE Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) who the nonprofit says spearheaded a "$6.1 cardinal pupil indebtedness forgiveness strategy to creation institute students."
"They telephone it relief, but it's truly a immense giveaway to radical who prosecute assemblage degrees that are conscionable unaffordable," Jones told Fox News Digital. "And look, that's wholly unacceptable to fundamentally person the national authorities repaying the pupil loans for idiosyncratic and putting that load connected the backmost of a plumber oregon a welder, you know, a teacher who is taking attraction of their acquisition oregon who didn't spell connected to college, they've present got to wage for immoderate feline who's got a feminist studies grade from Columbia and $150,000 successful debt. That's conscionable simply, fundamentally unfair and wrong. But look, if you privation to spell get that degree, you should beryllium prepared to wage for it."
The database includes different DOE worker who the nonprofit says helped the Biden medication "weaponize national pupil assistance policies against faith-based higher education."
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The nonprofit accuses the idiosyncratic of playing a cardinal relation successful the DOE levying a $37.7 cardinal good against Grand Canyon University, the nation’s largest Christian college, for alleged misrepresentation of the outgo of its doctoral grade programs, accusing the Biden medication of efficaciously having "bullied" the assemblage into wiping retired pupil indebtedness for them.
Everyone named connected the database is making six figures, Jones said, adding that immoderate are adjacent earning an yearly wage of much than $200,000, portion the mean American teacher's wage sits astatine astir $50,000 to $60,000.
"These woke bureaucrats astatine the Department of Education are pulling down $200,000 to onslaught alternatives to education," Jones said. "The Office of Enforcement is attacking things similar vocation colleges and Christian colleges, and they're getting affluent doing it. And that's conscionable shameful. So I'm hopeful that the medication says, look, this is, you know, paying radical $200,000 a twelvemonth to onslaught opportunities for, you know, welders, nurses and folks similar that to get a higher education. It's conscionable unacceptable."
"At the extremity of the day, American radical request to recognize that the radical we're talking astir present are not technicians," Jones said. "This isn't plumbing that they're doing. This is argumentation work. This is fundamentally ideological work. And astatine the extremity of the day, these radical are conscionable similar the governmental appointees that tin beryllium fired astatine the opening of the administration."
"I'm hopeful that the medication truly takes the accidental to dainty them similar governmental appointees and inquire them to determination on, due to the fact that if they don't, they're going to get left-wing governmental ideology successful the medication for the adjacent 4 years," helium added. "And unfortunately, we saw immoderate of that hap successful the archetypal administration. I'm cautiously optimistic that the medication learned their acquisition the hard way, the archetypal clip that they can't fto a clump of unelected bureaucrats tally roughshod implicit their docket during this administration."
Jones said helium supported President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to go Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, who inactive faces a Senate confirmation process.
"I'm excited that she's going to person the quality and the latitude to bash the hard enactment that it takes to truly shingle up the Department of Education, due to the fact that it's, you know, it's a Carter medication bureau that's stuck successful the 1970s, erstwhile the satellite has moved connected to antithetic approaches to education, whether it's in, you know, high schools or whether it's successful post-secondary education," Jones said.
Fox News Digital reached retired to the Department of Education property office, arsenic good arsenic the idiosyncratic staffers listed, seeking comment.
The AAF assembled a akin "watch-list" of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees who it recommended the Trump medication wide out. In effect astatine the time, DHS Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas condemned "in the strongest presumption immoderate effort to harass oregon intimidate our nationalist servants."
"What Alejandro Mayorkas did was usage the unit of the Department of Homeland Security to chill code by groups similar the American Accountability Foundation," Jones told Fox News Digital. "There were nary examples of anyone feeling threatened, but what determination were examples of was him ordering departments wrong the Department of Homeland Security to unfastened investigations of AAF. That's, you know, that's the benignant of weaponization of the U.S. authorities that we saw for 4 years nether the Biden administration… So the thought that immoderate folks are feeling targeted is conscionable nonsense and a implicit reddish herring and truly a instrumentality for Mayorkas and Biden medication officials to unopen down code that they don't conscionable don't hold with."
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