Republicans Attack ‘Woke Politics’ as Education Secretary Outlines Department Budget

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona was met with questions about education policy, rather than spending priorities, when presenting a $90-billion education budget to a House subcommittee on April 18.
The volley of criticism about the direction and performance of the U.S. Department of Education began at the start of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, a hearing convened ostensibly to hear the department’s 2024 budget request.
Chair Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) opened the meeting by questioning a proposed Department of Education rule allowing transgender students to compete on girls’ sports teams.
“Not only does it undermine the decades of work in giving girls the same opportunities to compete in women’s sports, which was the original intent of Title IX, it creates potential unsafe situations,” Aderholt said, referring to the mixing of biological boys and girls in locker rooms….}