Author: Al Jazeera Staff
Published on: 07/03/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
Trump says he intends to move forward with plans to dismantle the Department of Education. “Well, I want to just do it. I mean, we’re starting the process,” Trump said at a signing ceremony in the Oval Office on Thursday. A directive to wind down the department of Education was expected to be among the orders Trump signed. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denounced reports of an announcement as “more fake news” Rumours of an executive order Trump has been on a campaign to downsize the federal government. “You can’t have that kind of fat,” Trump said of the government’s size on Thursday. The Republican leader has gutted bureaus like the US Agency for International Development (USAID), closing its headquarters and reducing its staff to a skeleton crew of essential employees. The drafts called upon Education Secretary Linda McMahon, a Trump appointee, to take “all necessary steps” to wind down the department to “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law” Democrats immediately pounced on the news that the department’s demise was imminent. Trump has outlined a vision where the Department of Education’s responsibilities are reassigned to individual states. “We want to move education back to the states, where it belongs,” Trump said at the first cabinet meeting of his second term on February 26. But politicians like Bernie Sanders warned that redistributing the department’s tasks would simply increase the tax burden on individual states. Trump and Secretary McMahon are vocal supporters of “school choice” policies. Trump has also said his administration is working to roll back ideologically driven ideas. But Trump himself has not been shy about conditioning federal support on adherence to his political priorities.
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Trump sends mixed signals about everything. But considering fascists don’t like educated people, the writing is on the wall for DfE
