Team Trump focuses on being mean on purpose. To inflict pain and cause compliance through fear.
The latest evidence for this is found in the Administration using the current government shutdown to weaken the Department of Education:
Sweeping layoffs announced Friday by the Trump administration landed another body blow to the U.S. Department of Education, this time gutting the office responsible for overseeing special education, according to multiple sources within the department.
The reduction-in-force, or RIF, affects the dozens of staff responsible for roughly $15 billion dollars in special education funding, and for making sure states provide special education services to the nation’s 7.5 million children with disabilities.
