If you view Trump 2.0 through the lens of 1.0 and his SALT deduction limits, it all makes sense.
Stop subsidizing state and local institutions at a federal level, and force local voters to make decisions about how their tax dollars are being spent.
IMHO, public edumaction and medicine should not be profit centers. If you want to go to a private school or buy a new nose for vanity reasons from private practice, fine, pay as much as you'd like, but land grant universities and public hospitals shouldn't be operated as money gathering machines.
His approach makes sense, unless you are either a beneficiary of all this crap, or hate America.
Dead-eye Pete with 20 pounds of swingin' meat.