Democrats are trying to enter the Department of Education in the middle of indignation of possible DODE -DEPTOMS

Thirty Democrats on Friday morning tried to enter the Department of Education Building in Washington, DC, to meet with acting Education Secretary Denise L. Carter, but they were stopped by security.

A man who said he was a federal employee did not make it clear why the legislators had not been allowed in the building.

Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-FLA., Asked the man if he did it with his own will or had been ordered to block the door as the man responded to him doing his job.

As they surrounded the man in front of the door, legislators repeatedly insisted that they had the right to enter the building and threw the Trump administration over a “lack of transparency.”

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House Democrats were blocked to enter the Department of Education Building in Washington on February 7, 2025. (Fox News)

President Donald Trump and Republicans have been pursued to close the Institute of Education and said states are better equipped to deal with education. Trump on Tuesday said that if Linda McMahon, his choice of education secretary, is confirmed, she would have to work to “get out of a job.”

Twenty -six members of Congress, led by Rep. Mark Takano, D-California, wrote a letter to Carter with a request for a meeting. The department recognized the receipt of the letter but did not create a meeting.

One help made it inside the building and explained to security that legislators were there. Members then tried to go into the building and at that time the doors were locked, Fox News is told.

The nation’s report card, which assesses how American students work in different subjects, showed seven out of 10 fourth classes are not skilled readers, which is a worse score than the last report card in 2022. The report card noted that reading score showed “no significant change” since 1992.

File – President Donald Trump speaks with the then Secretary of Education Betsy Devos in the Roosevelt space in the White House on December 18, 2018 in Washington, DC (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Betsy Devos: The education department has failed. Time to let parents and states take the lead

Former Education Secretary Betsy Devos, who served in Trump’s first administration, threw the department and called for a renewal of an opinion.

“A complete reset begins by ending the failed experiment residing in the Department of Education. The bureaucrats have focused on Monday DEI when students needed focus to be on ABC and 123,” Devos wrote. “President Trump and Congress should remove their corrosive power and instead block grants for all necessary educational financing directly to the states.”

“This reset must also ensure that no child in America is trapped in a failing school,” Devos added.

The US Ministry of Education in Washington, DC (Erin Scott/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Elon Musk, whose department of government efficiency is expected to recommend greater expenses, became the subject of Democrats’ Ire as legislators protested against him at Capitol Hill on the last Tuesday.

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In response to legislators’ Fear, Trump said Musk “can’t do and won’t do anything without our approval.”

Fox News’ Chad Pergram contributed to this report.