“It keeps important landmark education programs at the Department of Education where Congress specifically put them and where they belong.” Democrats on Thursday expressed their disapproval of moving any Education Department functions outright, while Collins and Cassidy were more targeted in their opposition. On Thursday, McMahon and the leaders of the six agencies absorbing Education Department programs sent a letter to congressional leaders asking them to support dismantling agency. Special education advocates have decried the decision to move special education to HHS, led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. They worry funding for special education services and enforcement of the nation’s special education law could be disrupted.