Donald Trump, US President Donald Trump, signed a plan to dismantle the Ministry of Education despite his executive’s mixed signal.
“Well, I just want to do it. Trump said at the signing ceremony at the elliptical office on Thursday.
The guidelines for breaking down the Ministry of Education were expected to be one of Trump’s commands on Thursday.
However, the White House reporter Carolin Levicit blame Report on the announcement “The Fake News”.
Nevertheless, Trump did not secret the intention to shut down the Ministry of Education, the point that he visited on Thursday. The reporters asked if there was a “second idea” that would lead to a delay.
“We are trying to return the school to the United States. Trump is wrongly expressing the function of the department, allowing the state to run the school. ”
The Ministry of Education distributes federal financial support, conducts educational research, and guarantees compliance with school prohibitions and accessibility policies.
It is a decision left to state and local officials without setting up a school curriculum.
Nevertheless, Trump has doubled the idea that the department is a barrier to school control in the United States.
“If they run their own education, they will do much better than anyone sitting in Washington DC. I didn’t care about the students in the Midwest.”
Trump proposed to assign the responsibility to other institutions when he asked what would happen to the department’s federal student loans and subsidies.
Trump said, “It will lead to the Treasury or Small Business Administration or Commerce.” Trump has designated the name of another department.
“And we actually discussed today. I do not think that education should handle loans. It is not their business. I think it will bring it to a small business. ”
Rumors of administrative orders
Trump has been campaigning to reduce the federal government and moved to close the entire agency and dismiss thousands of workers.
Trump said on Thursday that “we are reducing it.” “You can’t have that kind of fat. It swells as if it has never seen before. ”
The Republican leader has already served the same country as the US International Development Agency (USAID), closing the headquarters and reducing employees to the essential employees.
In recent years, however, the president has not attempted to close the federal department that needs parliamentary approval.
The news media, including the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, have drafted the administrative order that provides insight into how Trump will approach such achievements.
The draft demanded “all necessary measures” to organize the department as “the maximum range of the law by the law” to take the “all necessary measures” to the Minister of Education, Linda McMahon, a Trump appointed.
Trump faced criticism of exaggerating the boundaries of his administrative authority, including the withholding of parliament’s mandatory funds and undermining other group councils established, such as USAID.
The Democratic Party immediately reported that the death of the department was imminent.
At a press conference on Thursday, the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer argued that the closure of the department would have a great influence on access to education, especially for low -income Americans and students with disabilities.
Schumer said, “The explosion of this command will harm almost all children, all teachers, all families and the community.
“We will have to serve our school, family, children, and minister MCMahon to bring electric saws to the Ministry of Education and undermine the mission for next -generation education.”
What is criticism?
Like many institutions that Trump wants to dismantle, the Ministry of Education has long been a conservative atmosphere.
In the second semester campaign last year, Trump reaffirmed the right -wing criticism that the education system was “awake”.
For example, on the 2024 Republican party platform, Trump and his allies said, “The safe learning environment will be free from political turmoil.”
Some of their strategies were to close the Ministry of Education, which implemented policies such as Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex.
It also guarantees compliance with federal laws that guarantee the equal approach to education for students with disabilities.
In addition, this department plays a financial role in the national education system, 8 % Public elementary school and secondary school fund.
It also distributes federal research subsidies and funds to cover student financial support for universities and universities. Overall, the Ministry of Education accounts for about $ 100.2 billion, accounting for 0.9 %of the total federal budget in 2025.
Trump, however, explained the vision of the Ministry of Education’s responsibility for individual states.
“We want to rewrite the education mainly. Sayed At the first cabinet meeting of the second term on February 26. “Iowa must be trained. Indiana must run his own education. ”
But politicians, such as Vermont’s Senator Bernie Sanders, warned that if they redistributed the tasks of this department, they would simply increase the tax burden on individual states, especially rural areas where resources could be low.
“Do you have to make the Ministry more efficient? I believe so. Should we destroy it and confuse the working class families in this country? Sanders said at a press conference on Thursday.
ABC News reported that the Trump administration had an planned administrative order on a Thursday question about potential public backlash.
Legality of Trump’s order
The Ministry of Education dates back to the 19th century, according to President Andrew Jackson, one of Trump’s presidential idols.
However, as the federal government began to play a more decisive role in public education due to citizenship issues, modern groups began to be embodied in the 20th century.
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter founded the Ministry of Education as known today to integrate various federal programs into the same umbrella. The leader has been a cabinet -level post since then.
But for a long time, the conservative push bag for the department was due to the potential interference with the state’s rights.
Trump tried to reconstruct US education in a different way, in addition to promoting the closure of the department.
He and MCMahon support the vocal music of the “school selection” policy, where parents can use taxpayer funds (generally private schools assigned to public education).
Trump also said his administration is trying to roll back the idea of ideologically leading ideas for racial and gender equality in education.
But Trump himself was not ashamed of controlling federal support for his political priority.
For example Trump on Tuesday I wrote In social media, universities must participate in the “illegal protest” or crack down on students who are faced with the results, including the discontinuation of the Federal Fund.
His words were understood to refer to the Palestinian demonstrations, but they were as vague that included other protests.
