Democrats Try to Impeach Linda McMahon for Actually Doing Her Job

So let me get this straight. Linda McMahon is facing impeachment articles because she’s actually trying to dismantle the Department of Education, which is precisely what she was appointed to do. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici from Oregon thinks this constitutes high crimes and misdemeanors. The audacity of following through on campaign promises, right?

This whole circus tells you everything about what’s broken in Washington. Here’s a cabinet secretary who looked at an agency producing historic low test scores, a catastrophic FAFSA rollout, and COVID school closures that devastated a generation of kids, and decided maybe we should try something different. The response from Democrats? Impeachment. Because nothing says “we care about children” quite like defending a failing bureaucracy.

Bonamici’s argument hinges on the idea that McMahon illegally transferred Education Department functions to other agencies. She moved special education services to Health and Human Services and civil rights responsibilities to the Justice Department. Honestly, that sounds like common sense to me. Why wouldn’t civil rights enforcement live at Justice? But Bonamici insists this violates Congress’s intent, as if congressional intent has ever stopped the administrative state from doing whatever it wants when Democrats are in charge.

The Education Department maintains they have broad authority to make these moves. They’re not eliminating protections or services. They’re reorganizing how government delivers them. You know what’s actually illegal? The way the federal government has spent decades expanding its control over local schools despite education not appearing anywhere in the Constitution’s enumerated powers. But we’re not supposed to talk about that.

McMahon’s response was perfect. She told Democrats to “do better” and pointed out that they’re more bothered by attempts to fix the education system than by its chronic failures. She mentioned designating parents as terrorists and males in female locker rooms. Those aren’t talking points. Those are real policies that came from the very department she’s now restructuring.

The disability rights groups are worried, Bonamici says. Fair enough. Parents of special needs kids have legitimate concerns about any changes to how services get delivered. But here’s the thing: the current system isn’t exactly covering itself in glory. Special education outcomes have been stagnant for years despite massive spending increases. Maybe moving those services to HHS, an agency that actually focuses on health and human services, might improve coordination and results.

This impeachment effort has zero chance of success and everyone knows it. Democrats would need Republican votes in the House and two thirds of the Senate. It’s political theater designed to rally the base and protect the bureaucratic status quo. More than a dozen Democratic co-sponsors have already signed on, which tells you how unified the party is in defending federal overreach.

The real story here isn’t about McMahon breaking laws. It’s about a political class that views any reduction in federal power as inherently illegitimate. Limited government isn’t just unpopular in Democratic circles anymore. It’s apparently impeachable.

Bonamici said she came to Congress over a decade ago to protect public education. I believe her. But protecting public education shouldn’t mean protecting a federal agency that has presided over declining literacy rates, widening achievement gaps, and an explosion in administrative costs while actual classroom instruction suffers. Those are facts, not opinions.

The Department of Education was created in 1979. American education was somehow functioning before that. States and local communities ran schools. Parents had more say. Teachers had more autonomy. Test scores were higher. We’re told that returning any power to states would be catastrophic, but the evidence suggests the opposite.

Chairman Tim Walberg supports McMahon’s approach, which makes sense given that Republicans have been promising to eliminate or dramatically reduce the Education Department for decades. The difference now is someone’s actually trying to do it. That’s what terrifies the establishment. Not that McMahon is breaking rules, but that she might actually succeed in proving we don’t need this massive federal bureaucracy.

The timing matters too. This impeachment push comes as parents across America are increasingly frustrated with how schools handled COVID, curriculum fights, and gender ideology. Democrats are defending institutions that have lost public trust. That’s a tough position, so they’re going on offense with impeachment articles that won’t go anywhere but might generate some sympathetic headlines.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth. If McMahon is guilty of anything, it’s exposing how little the Department of Education actually accomplishes that couldn’t be done better at the state or local level. That’s not a crime. That’s a public service.

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