President Donald Trump is taking steps forward to eliminate the Department of Education. This would be the latest action to reduce the federal government.
CNN notes that an executive order will direct Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling the department. Trump wants to close the department entirely, but that requires Congress. Trump is gearing up to push for the legislation to be passed.
The executive order instructs McMahon, the wife of embattled former WWE head Vince McMahon, to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Education Department” while operating to the “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.
“The experiment of controlling American education through Federal programs and dollars—and the unaccountable bureaucrats those programs and dollars support—has failed our children, our teachers, and our families.”
The order is not yet signed.