1776 Commission Members Appointed by Donald Trump Reconvene
District of Columbia | May 25, 2021
Despite U.S. President Joe Biden ending the group, members of The 1776 Commission have reconvened, regardless, to carry out a task that commission member Carol Swain said she and other members take seriously.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump appointed the members before he left office.
“We made a decision immediately that we would not disband just because of [Biden’s] executive order [getting rid of it],” Swain told The Tennessee Star Monday.
Swain said she and other commission members met Monday to focus on Biden’s federal directive about teaching history and civics going by Critical Race Theory.
“We believe that education should be in the hands of parents and decided at the local level that one of our recommendations is for parents to organize and run for the school board and be actively involved in selecting curricula for our children,” Swain said.
Swain said that 1776 Commission members never received federal funding.
“The commission itself was announced December 18 and by then Biden was the presumptive nominee,” Swain said.
“The [federal] Department of Education never provided our commission with any funding. We paid for our own airfare [to meet].”..
(Excerpts from the Tennessee Star)