The National Education Association wants to impeach President Trump. The price tag for that particular agenda item: $5,236,193. They also budgeted $218,729 for what American Wire News describes as anti-ICE propaganda, $314,632 for a "Culturally Responsive Teaching Resource Library," and $86,000 to oppose U.S. war policy.
Long division didn't get a line item.
The NEA — the largest teachers union in the country — just rolled out a slate of new agenda items at its annual gathering, and school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis has been posting the receipts. Among the highlights he flagged: "The National Education Association will call for the impeachment, conviction, and removal of Donald Trump." Not a suggestion. Not a resolution to "explore." A formal organizational commitment backed by more than five million dollars.
They also declared a formal vote of no confidence in Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. DeAngelis shared that language too: "The NEA declares a vote of no confidence in the current United States Secretary of Education." Which is a fascinating use of union resources, given that McMahon's job is education policy and the NEA's job is — at least on paper — supposed to be the same thing.
But the agenda kept going. The union adopted language claiming that "NEA educators are being disciplined, doxxed and fired for opposing the genocide in Palestine." That's a direct quote from the organization that represents America's public school teachers. Not a foreign policy think tank. Not a campus activist group. The people responsible for teaching your kids about fractions and the Constitution are spending organizational energy on Middle East geopolitics.
The union also pushed for family preparedness plans specifically for transgender individuals, healthcare advocacy including Medicare for All and single-payer systems, and opposition to ICE enforcement in communities. There's a reference to a May Day 2028 general strike — the kind of language that used to live exclusively in socialist pamphlets, not teacher contract negotiations.
The NEA also took aim at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and referenced a $1.8 billion Trump fund as a target for opposition spending. Every dollar amount attached to these items is a dollar that didn't go toward classroom resources, teacher training, or student outcomes.
Now, the union would argue this is about protecting educators and the communities they serve. That framing works if you define "serving" broadly enough to include impeachment drives, foreign policy positions, and healthcare system overhauls. Most parents define it as making sure their third-grader can read at grade level.
The gap between those two definitions is exactly why school choice keeps gaining ground. When the organization that claims to represent teachers spends $5.2 million on impeachment and $314,632 on a "culturally responsive" library while reading scores sit at historic lows, parents notice. They don't need Corey DeAngelis to tell them the priorities are off — though he's certainly making sure they see the receipts.
The NEA put it all in writing. The impeachment budget. The ICE opposition. The Palestine statement. The general strike. They published their agenda and dared anyone to object.
When an organization voluntarily publishes a document showing exactly where its money and attention go, and "improving student achievement" requires a search party to find, the document is the argument. No commentary needed.
