Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) blasted the Department of Education for failing to produce positive academic outcomes.

Ever since President Donald Trump named Tesla CEO Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to be the volunteer heads of the Department of Government Efficiency, the two have teased cuts to education. Ramaswamy campaigned on demolishing the department altogether, but has has since bowed out of DOGE. Scott seemingly is on Ramaswamy’s side.

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“You wouldn’t own the stock of the stock of the Department of Education, would you? You wouldn’t go buy the stock,” Scott said on Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria Bartiromo on Thursday. “Think about it, since the Department of Education has been around, has the quality of education gone up or down in the country? It’s gone down. Has the ratings gone up or down? They’ve gone down.”

Trump has committed to sending education funding back to the states rather than have education be mostly funded at the federal level. According to the president, there are “great states that do so well, have no debt” when it comes to education.

“This is a state and local issue. The federal government should get completely out of the Department of Education and let the states handle education and let them all compete,” Scott said. “That’s what we should be doing. Get the federal government out of Department of Education.”

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Currently, the acting Education Secretary is Denise L. Carter. Trump’s pick is former WWE executive and Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon. Her confirmation hearing began Thursday, but Scott lamented how the Democrats have succeeded in “slowing everything down” when it comes to Trump’s Cabinet.

President Andrew Johnson created the Education Department at the federal level in 1867. While education is considered a basic human right by organizations like the United Nations, a right to education is absent from the U.S. Constitution.