{"id":5678,"date":"2026-02-27T08:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5678"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:27:42","slug":"congress-re-funds-the-education-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/congress-re-funds-the-education-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress re-funds the Education Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kosar-Congress-refunds-the-Department-of-Education-03-04-2026.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"832\" data-attachment-id=\"5679\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/congress-re-funds-the-education-department\/kosar-congress-refunds-the-department-of-education-03-04-2026\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kosar-Congress-refunds-the-Department-of-Education-03-04-2026.png\" data-orig-size=\"640,832\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kosar Congress refunds the Department of Education  03-04-2026\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kosar-Congress-refunds-the-Department-of-Education-03-04-2026-231x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kosar-Congress-refunds-the-Department-of-Education-03-04-2026.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kosar-Congress-refunds-the-Department-of-Education-03-04-2026.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kosar-Congress-refunds-the-Department-of-Education-03-04-2026.png 640w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kosar-Congress-refunds-the-Department-of-Education-03-04-2026-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress sent a spending bill to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0in February, providing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/the-department-of-education-isnt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$78.9 billion<\/a>\u00a0in funding to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Education Department<\/a>. That is about the same amount that taxpayers provided last year. That might seem surprising because almost one year ago, Trump signed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/03\/improving-education-outcomes-by-empowering-parents-states-and-communities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an executive order<\/a>\u00a0to abolish the agency&#8230;.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/4468437\/congress-re-funds-education-department\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress sent a spending bill to\u00a0President Donald Trump\u00a0in February, providing\u00a0$78.9 billion\u00a0in funding to the Education Department. That is about the same amount that taxpayers provided last year. That might seem surprising because almost one year ago, Trump signed\u00a0an executive order\u00a0to abolish the agency&#8230;.(Read more)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160,44],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-5678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-education-policy","tag-the-washington-examiner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1tA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5680,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions\/5680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}