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#Trump to sign #ExecutiveOrder Thurs closing #Education Dept.
Trump to issue an EO Thurs directing his newly confirmed education secy to close the dept she now leads, 2 people familiar said.
A draft of the executive order that circulated on Wed recognizes that Trump does not have the #power to shutter the Education Dept. It would take an act of #Congress & 60 yes votes in the #Senate, which is unlikely given #Republicans hold only 53 seats.
#law #idiocracy #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/03/05/trump-close-education-department-executive-order/
Rather, the #ExecutiveOrder calls on #Trump’s #Education Secy Linda McMahon [former professional wrestling promoter
] to “take all necessary steps” to facilitate the closure of the dept “to the maximum extent appropriate & permitted by law.”
Officials including McMahon have suggested that might include trying to shift some of the agency’s functions to other parts of government, but that also would face #legal hurdles, as the agency’s major programs are assigned, by #law, to the Education Dept.
More likely is a continuation of what has already begun at the agency: deep cuts to staff, programs & grants. The #Education Dept has already warned of a “very significant” reduction in force, or RIF [#Musk #AutoRIF?], in the short term.
The draft was labeled “pre-decisional.” One person familiar with the matter confirmed that the draft was legitimate but cautioned that its details could change before it is issued. The #Trump White House declined to comment.
The #Education Dept administers federal #grant programs, including the $18.4B #TitleI program that provides supplemental funding to high-#poverty K-12 #schools, as well as the $15.5B program that helps cover the cost of education for #students with #disabilities. The dept also oversees the $1.6T federal #StudentLoan program & sets rules for what #colleges must do to participate.
The #ExecutiveOrder is cast as returning power over #education to states & local communities, as #Trump has repeatedly promised to do. It does not recognize that #K12 #schools, as well as public #universities & #colleges, are ALREADY controlled almost entirely by states & local communities. The federal government, by #law, may not control school #curriculum.
While #Trump suggests the federal govt is doing too much on #education, he also demands that it do more. The #ExecutiveOrder is expected to amplify Trump’s call for #schools to excise *illegal discrimination* in the *guise* of #diversity, #equity & #inclusion programs or risk losing federal #funding, which accounts for about 10% of #K12 public #school dollars & a significant share of higher education funding.
@Nonilex I almost read this as “pre-delusional” which it is too.
I did too!
@Nonilex Glad I’m not the only one!
@Nonilex I hope people keep it top of mind in their reposting the bit that he doesn’t have the authority - despairing narratives seem to prefer to leave those parts out
@Nonilex no amount of words can describe the level of stupidity where tax cuts costing trillions over the next decade will be given to one group and cuts to the significant crown jewels of the American nation is systematically made to give the deceptive optics that something is being done about the Federal deficit. Yet the ones that voted passionately for this adminstration will be the ones that will suffer economically the most. Bravo.
@Nonilex So we're all just capitulating to the whole "rule by decree" thing? That's that?
@liquor_american @Nonilex honestly all we can do is protest, boycott, strike, or other agitation duties as needed while the majority of the legislature is content to be Trump’s toothless lapdogs.
@Nonilex heard it was delayed like the tariffs by the Orange ping-pong ball
@Nonilex just the fact that he’s doing this in the middle of a school year deserves being encased in a prison made of banned books.
@Nonilex
The first word in today’s spelling bee is “endumbification”.
Second word: “Putinization”
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Teacher: Use the word Proletariat in a sentence.
Student: The greatest threat to any dictatorship is an educated proletariat.