You believe this is unique to our current President? If so you haven't been following anything for any legitmate amount of time. 

You don't want to see tax payer dollars go to private religious schools yet exactly how much is going to those schools? Are you counting vouchers which give parents the choice where to send their children? Are you counting tax credits parents receive for education expenses? Where is the foundation of your position coming from? And who are you to say where local tax dollars go towards? If a community decides to fund a charter school system (private schools get little to no tax money less they completely adhere to the guidelines by the DOE) because the public option is garbage why is that something you'd be against?

You trot out the whole church and state argument, which is funny because without Google assisting you please tell me where that phrase is in any original document, however you either forgot to add schools of non-Christian faith or decided abstaining those would further your insinuated argument that somehow proponents of private schools are working with the government to promote Christianity as a state religion. You mentioned free market however there cannot exist a free market if the public schools have their funding through force (tax) while private schools have to compete to obtain their funding, by default the exact opposite of a free market solution. 

It's also quite telling that people against the voucher system are almost always middle class white people and those who benefit most from voucher systems are lower income blacks in urban areas. I won't go down the whole stubble racism road people often do however I truly wonder why anyone could take such a position considering those who benefit are having a shot at an education they otherwise could not achieve. One of the major reasons I absolutely hated Obama, when he came into office he ended the D.C. voucher program. It was an inexcusable crime against the children who benefited from the program and those who never had the opportunity following his decision. 

There's already a solution to schools (whether public or private) but it what I'd suggest would be too outrageous and progressive by most people ... 

Since we seem to be the laughing stock of the entire global community in education here's my proposal ... 

Cut every subject that's not a part of Math, English, Physical and Life Sciences ... (Does the majority of our high tech world need to know humanities or the social sciences ?)

Make extracurricular's self funded including gyms or outside sport's fields ... (Never understood the mentality of after school activities or physical education in purely academic enviroments.)

Decommission libraries or not build libraries anymore since the digital age allows us to access more information than ever ... (I almost never needed to go to libraries with a great invention such as the internet.)

Make online courses more available ... (This should be the norm since extra room space isn't needed thus making education cheaper in the end.)

Offer more university level courses ... (Potentially more usefully educated workforce and lower failure rate when graduating from university.) 

Cut elementary school altogether (K-6) ... (At this point I'm almost convinced those types of institutions are nothing more than expensive child day care centres when most people could learn what they need in 6 years with less school hours to boot.) 

This is a win-win situation all around since education is more accessible, cheaper, rigorous, teachers could get paid more and we get to increase PISA scores too!

It's all bs

So Republicans last attempt before it goes from 50 to 60 votes on repealing ACA has met an end with a few republicans such as McCain going against this rushed "bill" that hasn't even been looked at by the budget office.


Watching republicans trying to govern is fucking hilarious.

The funny thing is that this is no longer Trump's monster. This is McConnell's monster, instead of doing something productive and reforming the utterly byzantine tax code the United States has, he willingly pushes through with bills that have a near-zero chance of success in the current senate. Pushing a replacement to the ACA should be a much easier task if (R)s are able to expand their majority in 2018.

The fact that Trump had to go negotiate with (D)s on the budget (and conceding ground on issues like border security in exchange for stability in the upcoming fiscal year) is also reflective of the impotence (or unwillingness) of McConnell as a Senate Majority Leader.

But, why should he care when he can just go blame Trump for his own incompetence, and people will applaud him for it?

If Trump hasn't enough power to solve any of this can't we just impeach him? It's not like he can do anything anyway with McConnell in such a strong position. That way we can at least appease more than 50% of voters in the country.

I'd say that McConnell would've had a proper justificarion for this had Trump refused to sign the Russia Sanctions bill.

iirc He needs both houses of congress to impeach Trump, and while I know that McConnell and Ryan can both secure that sort of support (added to the Democrats', of course), next year happens to be an election year. There are some people who don't want to be primaried out of their seats.

He signed it.  That would be a death wish if he vetoed it.  There is already Russian collusion allegiations so of course he signed it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/world/europe/trump-russia-sanctions.html

And there is an obvious reason he signed it.  He would have been overwritten on his veto.

If anything they fixed Obama's mess concerning the Title IX guidelines?