The Hill - The Washington Post’s Laura Meckler and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel report the Trump administration is planning to announce that it will dismantle most of the Education Department.
Multiple offices within the department will be shifted elsewhere, sources told the Post.
Reminder: While Trump can effectively shutter the department through broad cuts to programs and staff, Congress would need to pass legislation to formally abolish it.
“President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March seeking to close the department and asked Education Secretary Linda McMahon to work with Congress to do so. The agency, which was created in 1979, has long been derided by conservatives as unnecessary and ineffective. But Congress has not acted on or seriously considered Trump’s request. McMahon has acknowledged that only Congress can eliminate the department but vowed to do everything in her power to dismantle it from within.” (The Washington Post)
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