President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin gutting the Department of Education on Thursday, fulfilling a campaign promise to the GOP to roll back federal oversight of the public education system.
The order is Trump’s most significant action in dismantling the Education Department. Still, it faces legal hurdles, as Congress is the only legislative body that can end the department.
HOW TRUMP’S PROMISE TO ABOLISH THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WOULD WORK
Yet Trump’s actions could help effectively strip the department of enough power to render it ineffectual.
“We’re going to shut it down and shut it down as quickly as possible,” Trump said at a White House ceremony to many GOP governors. “It’s doing us no good.”
