President Donald Trump is expected to firm an executive order to reduce the White House Education Department on Thursday, several sources told ABC News.
The president’s order will lead the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, to take all the necessary measures allowed by law to dissolve the Department of Education, according to the sources.
The measure has been months in process and will help the president fulfill his campaign promise to return educational power and decisions to the United States.
Trump will lead McMahon, to take “all the necessary measures to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and the Education Authority to return to the United States,” according to a summary of the White House of the Order reviewed by ABC News.
The order also requires the “uninterrupted delivery of services, programs and benefits in which Americans depend.” It is still not clear how the administration plans to achieve that. The sources said the administration has been investigating how to transfer some of the key programs to other agencies.
Republican government Ron Desantis de Florida, Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, Greg Abbott of Texas and Mike Dewine in Ohio are among the state leaders who are expected to attend the signature ceremony in the White House, according to a White House official.
The department took the first steps to reduce and close last week when it dismissed almost half of its employees, and was significantly reduced in size through a massive strength reduction, deferred resignation and retirement purchases, according to the department.
Civil and supporters of the Department of Education are manifested outside the Washington Department, on March 11, 2025.
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Trump is also expected to continue the reforms, committing to erase more personnel from the agency and destroy it.
“I hope you do [be shut down entirely]”Trump said” full measure “with Sharyl Attkisson earlier this month.” You have some people just to make sure [the states are] English teaching, you know, you say reading, writing and arithmetic. “
However, the approval of the Congress is required to abolish a federal agency, and McMahon has acknowledged that it would need Congress to carry out the president’s vision to close the department that has been used to lead. 60 votes “Yes” would be needed in the Senate to overcome the filibuster and dismantle the agency that Congress created.
Linda McMahon, nominated for President Trump, will be Secretary of Education, testifies to a confirmation hearing of the Senate Health, Labor, Labor and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on February 13, 2025.
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Critics argue that the department is necessary for vital financial assistance and subsidies programs. Education experts suggested that closing the Department of Education could destroy the financing of public education and disproportionately affect high -need students throughout the country that depend on legitimately authorized programs, such as the Law of Education and Title 1 of people with disabilities, which provides funds for low -income families.
McMahon said the agency will still manage those legal programs in which the students of the disadvantaged environments trust. In an interview in “The Ingraham Angle” by Fox News, McMahon suggested that the “good” employees who manage legally mandatory functions will not be harmed by staff reductions.
A statement from the department said that “it will continue to deliver all the legal programs that fall in the scope of the agency, including formula funds, student loans, Pell subsidies, financing for special needs students and the creation of competitive subsidies.”
In more than four decades, Trump and the skeptics of the Department of Education believe that the agency has had too much expenditure power without achieving results.
After McMahon swore, he stressed that the agency’s abolition is based on allowing families to choose a “quality education” so that US students are not “trapped in failed schools.”
