Massive amounts of federal aid should not be going to education, as it is not included in the constitution as a federal matter, retired Judge Andrew Napolitano said Friday on Newsmax while commenting about the calls from the Trump administration to shutter the Department of Education. 

“This is something that Donald Trump has championed since before he was president of the United States the first time,” Napolitano said on “National Report.” “Education is not articulated in the Constitution as a federal matter. It’s entirely up to the states.”

A coalition of Democrat-led states challenged the administration’s sweeping Education Department layoffs Thursday, saying that the move amounts to an illegal dismantling of an agency that was created by Congress. 

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