Trump signs EO eliminating the Dept. of Education

[Anti Federalist]

Headline is incorrect.

He directed Linda McMahon to start the dismantling process.

 

[Cleaner44]

U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Thursday that fulfills a key campaign promise of shutting down the Department of Education.

According to a White House summary seen by Reuters, the move ensures the department – called “a big con job” by Trump – is no more. The plan is to shift much of the department’s duties to the states, where curricula is determined, as well as other agencies.

Trump’s new education secretary, Linda McMahon, has defended the president’s initiative achieving what would be his first shutdown of a cabinet-level agency.

The Trump administration has already been gutting the agency, as Breitbart News reported.

Its workforce is being slashed in half and there have been deep cuts to the Office for Civil Rights and the Institute of Education Sciences, which gathers data on the nation’s academic progress, much to the anger of Democrat opponents.

Promise Made, Promise Kept: Trump to Sign Order Closing U.S. Education Department

U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order that fulfills a campaign promise of shutting down the Department of Education.

www.breitbart.com

I am glad to see Department getting chopped down!

 

[idiom]

See, this would be the one place they should be pointing out its not an enumerated power to fund a department of education.

Trump has the legal right do dismantle it. But no... he's using his will as god emperor to do it because he thinks a uneducated populace will be more supportive.

 

[spudea]

Where's Rand? Where's Massie? Where's Ron Paul? Fulfilling a decades long pledge of the Republican party. Thank you Trump!

 

[CaptUSA]

Where's Rand? Where's Massie? Where's Ron Paul? Fulfilling a decades long pledge of the Republican party. Thank you Trump!

 

[Anti Globalist]

Now we need Congress to pass Massie's bill so that this can be permanent.

 

[Anti Federalist]

NH will no longer have to support IL schools.

Now, eliminate them all.

 

[TheTexan]

Color me impressed I didn't think he'd actually try it

 

[unknown]

See, this would be the one place they should be pointing out its not an enumerated power to fund a department of education.

Trump has the legal right do dismantle it. But no... he's using his will as god emperor to do it because he thinks a uneducated populace will be more supportive.

The problem with trying to enforce the rule of law / Constitution, is that the Supreme Fraud will simply over-rule him.

Imagine what would happen if the Supreme Fraud set a precedent that government has to be restrained by the Constitution...

 

[unknown]

There's a bit of a propaganda war.

The Left is leading people to believe that without the DOE, public schooling would end.

 

[unknown]

Although it would be great if we did end the Public Indoctrination System.

 

[oyarde]

There's a bit of a propaganda war.

The Left is leading people to believe that without the DOE, public schooling would end.

In my state public skool is in state constitution . Love to be rid of it but isnt going . All property tax and about 1/2 of all state tax collected funds it . By doing away w/ it could eliminate property tax and reduce state tax to 2 1/2 percent . Entire rest of state ran on gas tax , sales tax and state tax and surplus w/ balanced budget

 

[Anti Globalist]

There's a bit of a propaganda war.

The Left is leading people to believe that without the DOE, public schooling would end.

Well somebody needs to tell the Left that public schooling was just fine before the DOE was created in 1979.

 

[Swordsmyth]

See, this would be the one place they should be pointing out its not an enumerated power to fund a department of education.

Trump has the legal right do dismantle it. But no... he's using his will as god emperor to do it because he thinks a uneducated populace will be more supportive.

More fantasy ravings.

 

[Swordsmyth]

The U.S. Department of Education will be "much smaller" but not eliminated by the executive order President Donald Trump is signing, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

The department will continue to administer college student loans and Pell grants, enforce civil rights laws, and provide funding for low-income students and special education, Leavitt told reporters, The Guardian reported.

"The Department of Education will be much smaller than it is today," Leavitt commented, adding that "any critical functions" will remain after Trump signs the order at an event planned for 4 p.m. ET.

"When it comes to student loans and Pell grants, those will still be run out of the Department of Education. But we don't need to be spending more than $3 trillion over the course of a few decades on a department that's clearly failing in its initial intention to educate our students."

Trump and his allies have often called to dismantle the department, but doing so would require an act of Congress. It has not been made clear if the votes would be there to get rid of the department altogether.

Trump has also suggested that he could get enough votes in Congress to close the department but claimed teachers' unions are blocking the plan.

The White House said in a fact sheet on Wednesday that Trump would be signing an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to "take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure (of) the Department of Education and return education authority to the States, while continuing to ensure the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely."

The order will also mandate that programs or activities that receive remaining funding through the Department of Education are not to "advance DEI or gender ideology." But even without shutting down the department, cuts being made could mean it would be impossible for it to continue working, NBC News reported.

More at:

https://www.newsmax.com/us/department-of-education-trump-karoline-leavitt/2025/03/20/id/1203670/

https://www.newsmax.com/us/department-of-education-trump-karoline-leavitt/2025/03/20/id/1203670/

 

[acptulsa]

Well somebody needs to tell the Left that public schooling was just fine before the DOE was created in 1979.

You're right about ED. But you confused it with the Department of Energy, which was created in 1977.

Bureaucrats call Education ED to differentiate them. And if Trump's not man enough to close it down completely, he has ED.

 

[Swordsmyth]

You're right about ED. But you confused it with the Department of Energy, which was created in 1977.

Bureaucrats call Education ED to differentiate them. And if Trump's not man enough to close it down completely, he has ED.

If he closed it down without Congress you'd be calling him a dictator, unlike USAID or the FBI, ED was created by Congress.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Trump is doing as much as he can without being stopped by SCOTUS and impeached by Congress.

 

[acptulsa]

Trump is doing as much as he can without being stopped by SCOTUS and impeached by Congress.

"...they go in on promises and they go out on alibis." -- Will Rogers

 

[Swordsmyth]

"...they go in on promises and they go out on alibis." -- Will Rogers

Again, he's fulfilling his promise, as far as it was ever in his power to eliminate it, everyone knew it would take an act of Congress to finish the job all along and he's pushing for one.

You are being as disingenuous as Massie when he blamed Trump for not repealing O'Bummercare when Trump got it all the way to the finish line and McCain torpedoed it.