President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to begin the dismantling of the Department of Education.
Could it be happening at long last?
This task has been a pipe dream of conservatives — and even many Republicans — since the Reagan era.
Per Breitbart News:
President Donald Trump signed a highly anticipated executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the Department of Education.
Flanked by school children, lawmakers, parental rights advocates, and Republican governors from across the United States, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, Trump signed an order declaring that “the experiment of controlling American education through Federal programs and dollars — and the unaccountable bureaucracy those programs and dollars support — has plainly failed our children, our teachers, and our families.”
“When President Carter created the Federal Education Department in 1979, it was opposed by members of his own cabinet as well as the American Federation of Teachers, the New York Times Editorial Board, and the famed Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. History has proven them right — absolutely right,” Trump said in a speech before signing the order.
BREAKING: President Donald J. Trump signs an executive order to officially begin the process of closing the Department of Education. pic.twitter.com/A652ZCudOS
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 20, 2025
This really is good. The DOE really has never done a single good thing for America or its students. And it has been a massive black hole of wasted tax dollars. There also isn’t any raison d’être in the U.S. Constitution for the department.
Let’s hope that this sticks.
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