Another promise kept?
According to an ABC News report, top Trump Administration officials have begun circulating a draft of an executive order that will begin the process of ending the Department of Education.
From ABC News:
The proposed order gutting the agency is expected to call for the education secretary to submit a proposal for dismantling the department and for Congress to pass legislation to get rid of it.
The timing on when Trump plans to sign the order remains unclear, but sources familiar with the process told ABC News that conversations about the future of the department have been actively occurring.
Closing down the department would be an extraordinary move that would help Trump inch closer to fulfilling the promise that he made for months on the campaign trail: dismantling it and sending education policy back to the states.
But any executive action is likely to ask for a plan to shut down the department, but not an immediate directive to shut down the department, sources told ABC News.
Trump has promised to shutter the DOE — both on the campaign trail and after his election win.
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The Department of Education's budget for fiscal year 2025 is $82.4 billion, with an average salary of $112,164, 56% higher than the average government employee.
Since its formation in 1979, the US has gone from 1st to 34th in OECD ranking.pic.twitter.com/8s2gRXHCPc
— John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) February 3, 2025
DOGE head Elon Musk said Trump will succeed in shutting down the DOE.
“Reagan campaigned on ending the federal Dept of Education, which was created by Carter in 1979, but it was bigger when Reagan left office than when he started! Not this time. President [Trump] will succeed,” Musk said in response to a report from The Washington Post.
Reagan campaigned on ending the federal Dept of Education, which was created by Carter in 1979, but it was bigger when Reagan left office than when he started!
Not this time. President @realDonaldTrump will succeed. pic.twitter.com/PO5MoqpBV1
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2025
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