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What’s at Stake as Trump Targets US Education Department?
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March 17, 2025
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1:11Now PlayingThe Department of Education is facing a reckoning under US President Donald Trump.
After spending months on the campaign trail vowing to close the department, Trump took his most drastic step yet toward fulfilling that promise by cutting nearly half the department’s staff. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has said that Trump intends to sign an executive order directing officials to develop a plan to eliminate the department altogether.
The cuts to staff were announced after the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency, led by billionaire Elon Musk, had already started to reduce the department’s workload by firing employees and terminating hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and contracts.
Amid a broader push to slash spending and regulations across the government, Trump has said his ultimate goal is to leave education oversight to the states. However, local and state officials – not the Education Department – already have primary control of the curricula and educational priorities of schools in the US.
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