俄勒冈州众议员苏珊娜·博纳米希。周四提出了对教育部长琳达·麦克马洪的弹劾条款，因为她试图煽动教育部。
虽然民主党人一直批评麦克马洪解散她领导的部门的议程，但博纳米奇的决议是他们弹劾她的第一次努力。
周四在众议院，博纳米奇说麦克马洪向国会撒谎，她指责部长将关键的教育部职能“非法转移”给伙伴机构。
“这完全超出了界限，”博纳米奇在她的发言后告诉美国广播公司新闻。她说:“你不能单方面把国会交给教育部的一个项目转移到别的地方去。”
弹劾条款认为，麦克马洪表现出“故意和系统地拒绝遵守法律”，她在国会面前做出虚假陈述，违背了公众的信任。
在回应Bonamici在X上发表的关于她宣布弹劾McMahon的计划的帖子时，这位秘书写道，“对国会的民主党人:做得更好。”
麦克马洪写道:“众议院民主党人认为可弹劾的罪行正在改善学生成绩，减少联邦官僚主义，这很有意义。”。“他们绝不能被我们教育体系的长期失败所困扰，这种失败导致了历史最低的考试分数，失败的FAFSA表格展示，在冠状病毒肺炎期间关闭的教室，指定父母为恐怖分子，以及男学生在女更衣室。”
最近，教育部宣布了川普政府解散的一项重大举措——将特殊教育服务和民权职责分别移交给卫生与公众服务部(HHS)和司法部(DOJ)。
教育部官员声称，该机构拥有转移服务的广泛权力，并指出这些办公室制定的政策和监督将被授予并保留在教育部，称学生不会失去任何权利。
到目前为止，弹劾决议的越来越多的十几个民主党共同提案人来自党团会议。但民主党人呼吁弹劾特朗普政府官员，尽管他们是少数派，但仍有很长的路要走:他们必须在共和党控制的众议院获得弹劾投票，共和党控制的参议院三分之二的人必须投票才能定罪。
与此同时，博纳米奇的决议指控麦克马洪犯下了“重罪和轻罪”。她还强调，麦克马洪没有权力通过与HHS和DOJ的合作关系来挑选该机构。
“这不是机构间协议的目的，”博纳米奇周四在国会大厦说，并补充说，“这不是用来关闭一个部门的。”
这位高级教育委员会成员说，她十多年前来到国会保护公共教育，现在她正在为那些担心教育部关门的家长而斗争。
“从我在社区听到的故事来看，特别是从残疾人权利组织:我不能袖手旁观，”她告诉美国广播公司新闻，并补充说，“当[公共教育]被拆除并真正受到伤害时，我不会坐视不管，保持沉默。”
共和党教育委员会主席蒂姆·沃尔伯格是麦克马洪政策的坚定支持者，他谴责了民主党同事的努力。
“麦克马洪部长正在做选民选举特朗普总统要做的事情:控制臃肿的官僚机构，把学生、家长和纳税人放在第一位，”沃尔伯格在给美国广播公司新闻的一份声明中说。“不同意该议程并不意味着它可以被弹劾，”沃尔伯格补充说。
'It's completely out of bounds': Democrat launches Linda McMahon impeachment effort
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., on Thursday introduced articles of impeachment against Education Secretary Linda McMahon for attempting toabolish the Department of Education.
Though Democrats have been critical of McMahon’s agenda of dismantling the department she leads, Bonamici’s resolution is their first effort to impeach her.
On the House floor Thursday, Bonamici said that McMahon has lied to Congress and she scolded the secretary for making "illegal transfers" ofcritical Education Department functions to partner agencies.
"It's completely out of bounds," Bonamici told ABC News after her floor speech. "You can't just unilaterally move a program that Congress put at the Department of Education and put it somewhere else," she said.
The articles of impeachment argue that McMahon has shown a "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" and that she's breached the public's trust while making false statements before Congress.
Responding to Bonamici's post on X that she was announcing a plan to impeach McMahon, the secretary wrote, "To the Democrats in Congress: do better."
"It speaks volumes that House Democrats think an impeachable offense is working to improve student outcomes and reduce the federal bureaucracy," McMahon wrote."They must not be bothered by chronic failures of our education system that result in historic low test scores, a failed FAFSA form rollout, classrooms shuttered during COVID, designating parents as terrorists, and males in female locker rooms."
Recently the department announced a major step in the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle itself -- moving special education services and civil rights responsibilities to the departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Justice (DOJ), respectively.
Department officials claim that the agency has broad authority to move the services, noting that policies and oversight made by these offices will be vested and remain at the education department, saying students wouldn't lose any rights.
So far, the impeachment resolution has a growing list of more than a dozen Democratic co-sponsors from across the caucus. But Democrats' calls to impeach Trump administration officials would have a long road aheadwhile they're in the minority: they would have to get a vote to impeach in the Republican-controlled House and two-thirds of the Republican-controlled Senate would have to vote to convict.
Meanwhile, Bonamici's resolution alleges that McMahon has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors." She also stressed that McMahon doesn't have the authority to winnow the agency through the partnerships with HHS and DOJ.
"This is not what an interagency agreement is for," Bonamici said at the Capitol on Thursday, adding "It's not to be used to shut down a department."
The senior Education Committee member said she came to Congress over a decade ago to protect public education and now she is fighting for the parents who are concerned about the department's moves to shutter.
"From the stories that I'm hearing in the community, especially from the disability rights groups: I could not stand by," she told ABC News, adding "I'm just not going to sit by and stay silent when it's [public education] being dismantled and really harmed."
Republican Education Committee Chairman Tim Walberg, a staunch supporter of McMahon's policies, condemned his Democratic colleague's efforts.
"Secretary McMahon is doing exactly what voters elected President Trump to do: rein in a bloated bureaucracy and put students, parents, and taxpayers first," Walberg said in a statement to ABC News. "Disagreeing with that agenda does not make it impeachable," Walberg added.
