Moving to fulfil a campaign promise, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the Education Department, an agency Republicans have talked about closing for decades.
The order says Education Secretary Linda McMahon will, to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities.
Trump adviser Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has cut dozens of contracts it dismissed as woke and wasteful.
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