While the rest of the world gets ready to celebrate the New Year 2026 (Happy will have to wait until the jury comes back), K-12 schools will round second as their year passes the halfway mark, and college-level will head into the next semester. With the Trump administration having taken the reins of government in January, the consequences of the 2024 election writ large.

But President Trump’s hand is not the only one shaping the education world. Looking into a crystal ball filled with a swirling whiteout enveloped in an opaque fog, The Green B identifies issues that will continue dominating and influencing education ecology as all their tributaries conflate the K-H Ed universe in which students live. Consider the recent Hello Measles, My Old Friend, commentary on RFK and his HHS leadership the “soft opening” of several “Janus” essays on where we came from, where we are, and where it may lead as we journey ahead through the headwinds blowing 2026 ever closer.

LeatherMusk’s atomic chainsaw gnashed a future nuclear winter for decades to come. A major study by international scholars published the findings in the Lancelet, a well-respected medical journal. Among their predictions is 4.5 million children dead by 2030, a rate of 700,000 per year; 14 million adults as well. A staggering 91 million lives served and saved by USAID from 2001-2021. The lethal DOGE weapon chopped and mutilated programs in nutrition, medical care, education, cutting off access to impoverished populations looking to the rich, democratic, and humanitarian America as the god-send the USA is idolized for. As of November, Boston University’s Brooke Nichols said in the New Yorker the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children, have already succumbed to the fatal dismemberment of life saving programs. As William Gates said so savagely, sarcastically correct: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” he told the Financial Times. Gates added “I’d love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money”.

We now witness a mass killing, based not on ethnicity or religion, but a genocide in the name of the wealthy class. Let them eat…nothing. The Trump-Musk version spins Hitler’s unnutzer Esser, the “useless eaters” euthanized by the Reich because they were a burden on the govt, a cost center, a noble sacrifice of the most vulnerable on the socioeconomic scale for the state’s greater good. Hitler was preparing for a war effort; Trump for filling the budget gaps of a gargantuan tax break for the monied elite.

We have yet to see the domestic and geopolitical ramifications looming large on the horizon. Prof Nichols’ scenarios include government instability, with a United States now resented by embittered survivors and their shaken leaders. Payback is a bitch, and the debt may come due anytime between now and the next whenever. If Democrats gain control of the House and or Senate in 2026, and the White House in 2028, they may resurrect USAID or build something similar to stem the ineffable numbers worked out by the mathematical models as reported in Lancelet. It may be too late by then. What the chainsaw takes apart is not so easily put back whole. The dead will not revive, and the luster of democracy’s humanitarianism will be dulled by its own cruelty, a worthy target of a tyrant’s mockery.

With a billion dollars’ worth of aid and invaluable American goodwill rotting around the world, is there anything more fraudulent, wasteful, and abusive than the now flamed-out DOGE?