Student Subsidies of Prejudice Religious Groups May End Soon

The requirement that one group of students, for example gays and women, must subsidize religious groups who want to take away their rights may end during the next few years. Discrimination, put in place by Trump and his Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, is being challenged by the Biden Administration. 

Reporters who covered DeVos, whose responsibility was public sector education, said she spent an unprecedented amount of time visiting and promoting private religious-based schools. Her disinterest in public education set it back and extra effort will be required to bring it back to it previous level.

Neither Trump nor his rotating cast of Cabinet members had much interest in what they were tasked by our Constitution to do, run the government. Like the Cabinet of the Reagan Administration, Trump's Cabinet spent much of its time trying to torpedo government by making if inefficient and not effective. 

A former staff member of VP Pence who spent many hours in meetings with key Trump Cabinet members confirmed this. She said a key member of two were bitterly prejudice against Muslims and Middle East people in general. When, during the last few months of the Trump Administration, the topic came up about getting the Afghans who had helped the U.S. safe passage out of Afghanistan there was a brick wall. One or two high ranking Trump insiders hated Muslim and the Middle East. He wanted none of them to migrate into the U. S. He was able to place prejudiced people at various levels of the adjudication process for applicants to be moved to the safety of the U.S. These appointees would make certain Muslim applicants from the Middle East were turned down.

While free speech must always be available for everyone, setting up a bureaucracy to make sure like minded groups get favors and ones disliked go without is what does not need to happen. The Trump Administration was especially aggressive in staffing its bureaucracy with right wing political appointees. The more rational Biden Administration is doing a house cleaning that was badly needed.