President Trump set to shut down the Department of Education
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump talked about eliminating the Department of Education. Trump argued that many of its functions should be done by the states. He further argued that the Department of Education should not be pushing for indoctrinating American students with topics inconsistent with the desires of their parents. However, action from Congress would be needed if Trump’s desire in this area is to be completely met.
From the New York Post:
President Trump may use his executive powers to gut the Department of Education and then push for legislation to abolish it as part of his administration’s efforts to shrink the size of government, according to a report.
Trump administration officials are reportedly in talks about using an executive order to shut down nearly all of the agency’s functions, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Under the potential executive order, certain functions written explicitly into statute would remain at the Department of Education while some programs would be moved to other agencies, according to the outlet.
The order would also call on congressional lawmakers to pass legislation that would formally dismantle the department, as an act of Congress would be required to completely eliminate it.
The Education Department is among the federal agencies that Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk is eyeing major cuts for, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“The president plans to fulfill the campaign promise by reevaluating the future of the Department of Education,” a White House official told The Post when asked about the report.
On the campaign trail, Trump regularly took issue with the Department of Education and pledged to have it shuttered, if elected.
At a September rally in Wisconsin, Trump told the crowd he is “dying” to get back into office to “eliminate the federal Department of Education.”
“We will drain the government education swamp and stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth with all sorts of things that you don’t want to have our youth hearing,” he said.
In December, Trump told Time magazine that he planned for at least a “virtual closure” of the agency.
Additional Reading:
Nava, V. & Nelson, S. (2025, February 3). Trump considering executive order to shut down Department of Education: report. New York Post. Link.
Category: Donald Trump, Society
It’s odd to hear all of those on the left screeching about losing their rights under President Trump, when he is actually returning them. Get education back to the hands of locals, return teaching government, civics, cursive, how to write a damn check, greet someone, answer a damn phone, etc. etc. etc.
I write about two checks a year. Not sure that is an important life skill anymore.
I write about a half dozen checks a month.
Auto transfers don’t really help you pay attention to your expenses. At least for me. I’ve tried it both ways.
Knowing how to balance a checking account is an important thing to know. Also the last check I wrote was in error because I filled out the numbered portion correctly but failed to fill out the written portion correctly as to the amount. Not the first time I made that error.
Even if you don’t write checks to pay bills (I do), learning how to make and balance a budget is important in life.
Billions of dollars have been spent by the Dept. of Ed. over the 45-ish years since it has been created. Since then, among students literacy rates are down, mathematical ability is down, and ability to write and speak coherently is down. Any rational person would conclude it should be at the very least downsized to a core mission if not abolished as a complete waste.
We created a Department of Education and its area of concern got worse.
You don’t suppose there is any relationship between this:
And this? Because while I may not have stayed in Holliday Inn Express last night, I know me some maths, and they seem to be closely correlated. But if the guys need tampons they are in every stall of the men’s room.
Ah, posted the wrong first chart. Here is the correct one.
Department of Socialist Indoctrination created by a Socialist Moonbat.
As a guy who has to deal with what is out there for employees, the level of education these guys have is appalling. They cannot write a decent story to justify the labor they have on work performed. No capitalization, no punctuation it is al just a big run on sentence that makes no sense. Lets not get into the spelling mistakes. I talk to them and tell them that if they were paying $145.00 an hour to get work done on their equipment, and the guy doing the work appeared to be a 3rd grade dropout according to his dictation, how would they feel about the quality of that work?
I get the stupid stare.
They probably think dictation has something to do with sex ed..
We went from the top 5 in education to the top 5 of indoctrination. You won’t undo 40+ years of that overnight.
My wife works in food service at an elementary school. One of her workers asked a kindergarten teacher what the Boston Tea Party was all about.. the TEACHER gave a blank stare, and said ” I have no idea”… my wife then pro.ptly explained the whole thing… can’t expect much feom.the kids when the teachers are clueless..
Those of us who completed our K-12 educations before 1980 joke about being successful in spite of our public school educations. Did anyone imagine that 45 years later we would be promoted what we had over what currently passes for education?
Honestly, my father did. I remember him predicting the utter collapse of educational standards and accomplishments, something I was too young to really understand. Dad, the older I get, the more I miss your wisdom.
Removing any ability of the dea to provide funds to a state, country city educational institution will go a long way. They had been holding money over the heads of various states as the incentive to follow their directions. Take the money away and there is really no reason for the states and counties school districts to pay them any attention.
While he is at it, can he do something about Randi Weingarten? She is as useful as the Corporate Ethics enforcer at All Points Logistics.
Sounds like someone who couldn’t even sell a bottle of T-bird to Psul.
Of course the liberals are going to go triple batshit crazy over this because it cancels out a BUNCH of control over other people’s lives via indoctrination.