Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Tim Sheehy said at multiple campaign stops this year that he wants to do away with the U.S. Department of Education to save money — by “throwing it in the trash can” — and that education is one of his top three priorities.
“We have a Department of Education, which I don’t think we need anymore,” Sheehy said. “It should go away. That’ll save us $30 billion right there.”
Although he lobbed criticisms at public education from elementary schools all the way to college, his comments on the campaign trail offered more talking points from Project 2025 than they do specific plans that would benefit Montana, according to audio clips provided to the Daily Montanan.
In Billings, Sheehy shared part of his rationale for axing the Department of Education: “We formed that department so little Black girls could go to school down south, and we could have integrated schooling. We don’t need that anymore.”
