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Lee wrote:
Trump Education Secretary Gets
Embarrassing Math Lesson in Hearing
The U.S. secretary of education is
having issues with basic math.
Linda McMahon testified on Trump’s
2026 budget before the Senate on
Tuesday. While discussing spending
on federal grants programs for
disadvantaged students—TRIO and
the Gaining Early Awareness and
Readiness for Undergraduate
Programs, or GEAR UP—she made a
massive math error.
“We spend $1.58 billion a year on
TRIO?” Republican Senator John
Kennedy asked McMahon.
“Yes,” she replied.
“That’s one thousand five hundred
and eighty million dollars a year?
Is my math right?” Kennedy said,
spelling out $1.58 billion.
“So that’s over a trillion dollars
that we’ve spent on this program....
We give this money, as I appreciate
it, to colleges and universities to
encourage poor kids to go to college,”
Kennedy said to no objection from
McMahon, before going on to insinuate
that the colleges were stealing this
grant money from the government for
their own purposes.
“I’m not a great mathematician, but
I think you were talking about a
trillion dollars? I believe $1.5
billion times 10 is $15 billion,
and that’s a little bit off from
a trillion dollars,” Reed stated,
referring to Kennedy and McMahon’s
claim.
https://newrepublic.com/post/196045/trump-education-secretary-mcmahon-math-lesson-hearing
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