SUMMARY: A popular restaurant, Golden Apple Buffet, was shut down after federal immigration raids detained dozens of alleged undocumented workers linked to the business. Owners Lola Yang Yi and her brother-in-law De Jean pleaded not guilty to charges of harboring illegal immigrants and may be released on $100,000 bonds. Their attorneys requested time to interview detained workers, who face rapid deportation within seven days, to prepare a defense. Both defendants have lived legally in the U.S. for over a decade. Despite the legal challenges, they plan to reopen the restaurant soon, possibly within a week, and operate other locations in multiple states.

Two people tied to a raided restaurant shut down after federal immigration raids plan to reopen their shuttered restaurant as soon as possible.

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SUMMARY: 1587 Prime, a contemporary steakhouse in Kansas City co-founded by NFL stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, is set to open on September 17, 2025. Created with Noble 33 hospitality group, it offers a unique dining experience inspired by Kansas City’s pride and America’s pastime. The two-story venue seats 238 guests and features immersive design elements like a tunnel entry and open kitchen views. Executive Chef Ryan Arnold’s menu includes premium steaks such as Japanese A5 NY Strip and Wagyu Tomahawk, alongside inventive dishes and Michelin-grade cocktails by Juan Carlos Santana. Reservations are available online at 1587prime.com.

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by Shauneen Miranda, Missouri Independent
September 8, 2025

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s aim to shutter the Education Department faces steep hurdles in Congress, where Republicans’ legislative efforts to abolish the agency remain stalled and appropriators have rejected many of his proposed cuts to education spending.

After campaigning last year on a pledge to shut down the department, Trump came into office promising to follow through, and made some preliminary moves.

He said he wanted Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “put herself out of a job” and signed a sweeping executive order in March calling on her to facilitate the closure of the Education Department to the extent she is permitted to by law.

He won a key victory in the U.S. Supreme Court in July that temporarily cleared the way for the administration to move ahead with mass layoffs at the agency, a plan to dramatically downsize the department outlined in that March executive order and his directive to transfer certain services to other agencies. 

Court documents show that the department is planning to bring back more than 260 Office for Civil Rights staff affected by those sweeping layoffs stemming from a separate legal challenge against the administration’s actions earlier this year. 

But after a dizzying array of cuts and changes in the months since Trump took office looking to dismantle the agency, the GOP-controlled Congress — the only body that can abolish the 45-year-old department it created — is throwing up roadblocks to elimination.

Bills stalled

For starters, the handful of GOP bills in Congress to close down the department face a difficult path in the Senate, which requires at least 60 senators to advance most legislation. 

Republicans hold just 53 Senate seats. 

In the House, at least four Republicans — Thomas Massie of Kentucky, David Rouzer of North Carolina, Barry Moore of Alabama and Nathaniel Moran of Texas — have introduced bills this year to eliminate the department. Those bills were referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce, which has not voted on any of them. 

In a brief interview at the Capitol on Sept. 3, the committee’s chair, Michigan Republican Tim Walberg, said he still intended to eventually dismantle the agency, but had not committed to any particular bill.

“Our intentions are to ultimately dissolve the Department of Education — we know we have to do that in a way that makes sense and so, we’ll take a look at all bills,” Walberg told States Newsroom. 

“I can’t say whether they will all come up or not, but we know that, working with the secretary of Education, we’re going to right-size it, and some things we’ll eliminate, other things we’ll shift, as we’ve done already, over to the Department of Labor to take on some workforce areas,” the Michigan Republican said. 

The chair acknowledged that there would not be enough votes in the Senate to abolish the agency. 

“So what we can do that seems right for our students, for our parents and for our teachers, we’ll do,” Walberg said. 

GOP efforts to dismantle the department are also underway in the Senate. 

Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, alongside Sens. Jim Banks of Indiana and Tim Sheehy of Montana, reintroduced a measure in April to abolish the agency. 

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul also reintroduced a bill in March with Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Bernie Moreno of Ohio to shutter the department. The measure is a companion bill to Massie’s legislation. 

A spokesperson for Sen. Bill Cassidy, who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said the Louisiana Republican is “working with the administration and colleagues on how Congress can best codify the President’s reforms into law,” in a statement to States Newsroom.

The spokesperson noted that “President Trump and Republicans are committed to returning education authority to local communities best equipped to meet the needs of students and families.” 

Senate rebuffs Trump spending cuts

The administration’s attempts to dramatically scale back funding for the department in fiscal 2026 have not been met with much enthusiasm by appropriators in the Senate. 

The House and Senate Appropriations committees share jurisdiction over the bill to fund the department for the coming fiscal year. 

The Senate committee advanced a bipartisan bill in July, which largely rejects Trump’s proposed cuts to education spending and his attempt to dismantle the department. 

The bill tightens requirements for the department to have the necessary staffing levels to fulfill its statutory responsibilities and prevents the agency from transferring certain programs to other federal agencies. 

The legislation also allocates $79 billion in discretionary funding for the coming fiscal year, roughly the same as the current level, which could be seen as a slap in the face to the administration’s budget request that called for $12 billion in spending cuts at the agency. 

House includes deep cuts but keeps Pell spending

Meanwhile, the House Appropriations subcommittee dealing with education spending advanced its spending proposal for the agency on Sept. 2, sending the bill to the broader panel. 

The bill aligns much more with the administration’s spending cut priorities and education agenda, calling for $67 billion in discretionary funding at the department.

Part of the bill also reduces funding for Title I grants — which support school districts with high percentages of students who come from low-income families — by $5.2 billion, according to a summary from committee Republicans. 

The majority notes that “despite outsized investment, America’s public schools continue to fail children and families.”

But spending proposals in both the House and Senate reject the administration’s request to significantly reduce the maximum award for the Pell Grant, a government subsidy that helps low-income students pay for college. 

Instead, each proposal maintains the maximum award at $7,395. 

House and Senate appropriators have several steps to go before they can even reach the negotiating phase on the bill — which also includes spending on other agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services — and get it closer to becoming law.

It’s possible there might not even be a final agreement for months as lawmakers struggle to come to an overall agreement on how much to spend in the coming fiscal year, but the Senate’s bipartisan plan might give that chamber more of an advantage if those negotiations take place. 

Missouri Independent is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Missouri Independent maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Jason Hancock for questions: info@missouriindependent.com.

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Note: The following A.I. based commentary is not part of the original article, reproduced above, but is offered in the hopes that it will promote greater media literacy and critical thinking, by making any potential bias more visible to the reader –Staff Editor.

Political Bias Rating: Center-Right

This content presents a factual and detailed account of President Donald Trump’s efforts to reduce the size of the U.S. Department of Education, highlighting both the administration’s initiatives and the legislative challenges it faces. The coverage includes perspectives from Republican lawmakers supporting the downsizing, as well as bipartisan resistance in the Senate to proposed budget cuts. The tone is largely neutral, focusing on policy actions and political dynamics without overtly endorsing or criticizing either side, but the emphasis on conservative efforts to shrink government and return authority to local communities aligns with center-right viewpoints.