Thursday, 17 July 2025

President Trump Signs Executive Order to DISMANTLE Education Department

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It’s official: President Trump has just signed an executive order directing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to begin dismantling the Department of Education.

Totally eliminating the Education Department will require Congressional approval, but the executive order marks a huge step towards putting children’s education back in the hands of the parents — where it belongs.

President Trump signed the executive order live on TV, in front of a classroom of children, who signed along with him.

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Fox News has more details on what the executive order entails:

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to scale down the Department of Education — a move that is expected to spur lawsuits challenging the directive and will likely require Congressional approval.

Trump frequently has discussed plans to nix the Department of Education dating back to the campaign trail, and said in September 2024 that he wanted to cut down on the federal government’s influence over education to “stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth.”

“Everybody knows it’s right, and we have to get our children educated,” Trump said Thursday. “We’re not doing well with the world of education in this country, and we haven’t for a long time.”

As a result, a White House fact sheet on the executive order said, the directive aims to “turn over education to families instead of bureaucracies,” and instructs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure the Department of Education and return education authority to the States, while continuing to ensure the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.”

Still, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters earlier Thursday that the executive order would not entirely shutter the agency, but would only “greatly minimize” it.

Additionally, she said that the remaining agency would still oversee Pell Grants and student loans that provide financial aid for undergraduate students.

“It’s not going to be shut down,” Leavitt said. “Pell Grants and student loans will still be run out of the department in Washington, D.C., but the great responsibility of educating our nation’s students will return to the states.”

The White House did not immediately reply to a request for comment from Fox News Digital to clarify what the remaining Department of Education would do. The Department of Education did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

NBC News added:

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to start dismantling the Department of Education.

“It sounds strange, doesn’t it? Department of Education. We’re going to eliminate it,” Trump said while speaking in the East Room of the White House at a ceremony where he was flanked by children seated at school desks.

Congressional approval would be needed to fully abolish the department. Trump said that he hoped Democrats would vote in favor legislation to do that.

“I hope they’re going to be voting for it,” Trump said of congressional Democrats, “because ultimately it may come before them.”

Congress established the Department of Education in 1979 during President Jimmy Carter’s administration, and any effort to abolish the department would face major obstacles from Democrats in the Republican-controlled Senate, where 60 votes are required to overcome a filibuster and advance a measure to a final vote.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday morning that the department would not be completely eliminated, saying its “critical functions” would continue, including the enforcement of civil rights laws and oversight of student loans and Pell grants.

“The Department of Education will be much smaller than it is today,” Leavitt said, adding that the executive order directed McMahon “to greatly minimize the agency. So when it comes to student loans and Pell grants, those will still be run out of the Department of Education.”

The executive order also will not affect department activities aimed at meeting the educational needs of students with disabilities or Title I funding, which goes to school districts with a high proportion of students from low-income families, a senior administration official told NBC News on Wednesday.

At her Senate confirmation hearing last month, McMahon acknowledged the need to coordinate with Congress to close the department.

“Certainly President Trump understands that we’ll be working with Congress,” she said in response to a question from Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. “We’d like to do this right. We’d like to make sure that we are presenting a plan that I think our senators could get on board with and our Congress could get on board with that would have a better functioning Department of Education, but certainly does require congressional action.”

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