Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the federal shutdown offers evidence that her agency is “unnecessary.”

In a social media post on Wednesday, McMahon said the shutdown has forced agencies to evaluate what work is really needed. She made the comment days after her department started firing hundreds of workers amid mass layoffs across the government.

“Two weeks in, millions of American students are still going to school, teachers are getting paid, and schools are operating as normal,” McMahon said.

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      I’d like to see a lot of these assholes picking up trash by the highway.

      And since apparently that’s a thing now, the government should make a really big splash of it, and release slick videos showing all these fuckers working for the first time in their lives, along with voiceovers and dramatic music.

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          I don’t. I think it’d be far more of a lesson to other would-be Nazis to see these people doing some honest work that actually benefits society, too. Also, unlike a scalping or other act of violence, this would be something wholesome the entire family could watch without any concern.

          “Why is that guy wearing the orange clothes picking up trash, Mommy?”

          “Oh, he was a very bad man and now he’s paying his dues to society, Johnny. He’ll be cleaning up trash by the highways and featured in PSAs for the next 20 years.”