Educate-Labor?

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Who despite evidence to the contrary has tweeted confirmation that he is, in fact, a stable genius and is now proposing to merge US Department of Labor and Education? Is this a sinister plan to destroy both agencies?

https://www.ed.gov/ The United Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department that began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President Jimmy Carter signed into law on October 17, 1979

https://www.dol.gov/ The United States Department of Labor is a cabinet-level department responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics.

Will US Congress approve with November elections looming? The GOP has complained about the size of the federal government and many have taken particular aim at Education, which they see as intruding on a local and state authority.

White House to propose merging Labor and Education into one agency http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-white-house-…

Trump to propose merging Labor, Education departments, a report says
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/20/trump-to-propose-merging-lab…

Team administration puts the Department of Education in its sights http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-administration-puts-the-de…