US President Donald Trump signed an administrative order Disconnect the Ministry of Education and achieve the campaign pledge and some conservative goals.
Republicans have pledged to return their money to individual states, criticizing the institution for “breathtaking failure.”
Trump admitted that the White House needed parliamentary acts to close the agency, but “we will close as soon as possible.”
This measure is already facing legal issues from those who want to block the closure of the agency and those who try to reduce them to employees announced last week.
Trump, surrounded by children sitting at the White House’s school desk on Thursday, said, “The United States spends more money on education than in other countries, but students are near the bottom of the list.
The White House said his administration would move to reduce some of the departments remaining within the legal boundaries.
Executive orders are likely to face legal issues, just as many Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal government.
At the signing event, Trump praised Linda Mcmahon.
He said she would find something else in the administration.
After Trump signed the command, Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy The goal is to close the department.
However, the Republican Party has the majority of 53-47 in the Senate, and he has made such a goal in the long term because he needs 60 votes to finish the federal department.
However, even if the department was not officially closed, the Trump administration, like the USAID, was able to reject funds and employees, and then suspended many programs and humanitarian businesses.
The text of the administrative order does not include details on what the administration will take and which programs can be ax.
It ordered MCMahon to take all the necessary measures to promote the closure of the department and to provide the state and local governments with the authority of such problems.
She also instructs them to ensure that Americans rely on services, programs and benefits.
Founded in 1979, the Ministry of Education operates a program to manage student loans and help low -income students.
Trump, however, accused the young people in racial, sexual and political substances.
Most American children attend public schools and are free of charge by local officials. The general misunderstanding is that the Federal Ministry of Education runs US schools and sets curriculum, but is mainly carried out by state and local districts.
Relatively small amounts of funds for elementary and secondary schools (about 13%) come from the Federal Fund. Most of the money comes from state and local taxes.
The organization also plays an important role in managing and supervising federal student loans that millions of Americans use to pay higher education costs.
Immediately after she sweared, MCMahon sent a note to the 4,400 employees of this department, “The final mission of our department,” which is a possible mention of the goal of closing the department.
“This is an opportunity for future students to perform unforgettable final public services,” she said.
“We hope to be with me when our final mission is completed. We can say that we have left US education free, powerful and left more hope for the future.”
According to the early report, Trump expects to finish some of the departments and send others to other departments, such as the Treasury.
The United States’s largest teacher’s Union recently declared Trump’s plans, saying, “All children are not interested in opportunities.”
In the statement, the American Teachers’ Federation said: “Nobody likes bureaucracy and no one prefers more efficiency, so find a way to achieve this.
“But do not use ‘Woke on Woke’ to attack children with poverty and children with disabilities.”
For more than 40 years, the Conservative Party has complained about the department and has come up with an idea to abolish it.
His republican replacement, Ronald Reagan, was called to cancel the two years after the Democratic Party President Jimmy Carter.
It is the smallest agency in the president’s cabinet and accounts for less than 2% of the total federal budget.
Some of those staff have Already affected Reduction of manpower led by government efficiency by the Trump administration’s strong manpower cuts.
About 2,100 employees of the agency will be deployed on the vacation from Friday.
Doge’s efforts to slash federal spending and fundamentally reconstruct or simply abolish them were supervised by the billionaire Elon Musk.
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2025-03-21 03:00:00