Trump’s executive order on the education department is bothering Dems while Republicans celebrate
Republicans quickly welcomed President Trump The latest executive command In order to dismantle the education department on Thursday, while Democrats have blown the administration because of the “issuance of our children”.
Chuck Schumer Minor Senate Leader, Dn.y.He said in a statement, “The attempt to dismantle the Ministry of Education is one of the destructive and devastating steps that Donald Trump ever undertaken. This. Will. Injury. Children.”
“Donald Trump will be felt by teachers, parents, school leaders and in the quality of education our children get. The property taxes throughout the country will increase, while the quality of many schools will fail. The presidents will not make departments, and they cannot eliminate them either. The congress alone can do so.”
The feelings echoed HAKEEM JUFFRIES House leaderDN.Y., who said in a statement: “Enabled by the compliant Republicans House, Trump’s administration is determined to take a chainsaw in public education in America. The involvement of the education department will hurt millions of children in public schools of our country, their families and diligent teachers.”
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Trump has an executive command after being signed in the eastern room of the White House in Washington on March 20, 2025. (Mandel Ngan)
“The sizes of the class will increase, the educators will be discharged. Special education programs will be reduced and the faculty will become even more expensive, at a time when living costs are already too high,” Jeffies said.
“Donald Trump and Republicans in the home crash the economy in real time. They believe that giving huge tax reliefs is more important than supporting our children in public schools. Congress created the Ministry of Education and only a congress act can remove. We will stop this malignant republican scheme in the House of Representatives and in the courts.
“The courts must act in order to support the rule of the law and stop the Tiranian power of Donald Trump.”
Trump signed a command on Thursday after reviewing his plan for months. His choice for the department, Linda McMahon, only confirmed the Senate a few weeks ago and is completely related to the efforts, which was announced by her participation in the signature event.
“Donald Trump betrays our children and families,” said home democratic whip Katherine Clark, D-Masa. “Republicans have promised that the life of workers’ families will ease and safer. Now, they take a chainsaw to our local schools-all to finance tax contracts for their donors of billions. Withdrawing us into a recession.”
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Schumer called the move “destructive and devastating.” (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“I agree with President Trump that the Ministry of Education has failed its mission,” said the Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Work and Pension (Assistance), Bill Cassidy, R-La, in a statement for Fox News Digital. “Since the department can only be excluded with the approval of the congress, I will support the president’s goals by submitting the law that will achieve this as soon as possible.”
“President Trump has my full support in the removal of the education department. Return money to the states and with students,” wrote Senator Marsha Blackburn, R-TENN., O X.
Freedom House Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., Wrote on X, “The Ministry of Education failed his mission because he promotes everything but reading, writing and arithmetic. President Trump returns education to states and gives power to parents and students.”
Senator Tim Kaine, D-VA, said in the statement: “The executive order of President Trump to suffocate the US Ministry of Education emphasizes that it is beyond contact with students, parents and teachers. This order will have a negative impact on every student and harm our economic growth and competitiveness.”
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Linda McMahon was confirmed as a secretary for education. (Getty Images/Reuters/Fox News Digital)
The Chairman of the Team Walberg, R-Mich, said in his own statement: “The key to improvement of education is to empower parents and students and reduce the role of bureaucrats in Washington. Over the last four years, the nation has seen the results of the establishment of the education department and disorders in the disorder, encouraging the fostering school. Treating the encouragement of a student effect throughout the country, he repeatedly pushed the obligations of the student loan to the middle class taxpayers and pushed the radical gender ideology that the courts had repeatedly demolished as unconstitutional. “
“Now we have the Minister of Education, Linda McMahon, who understands the importance of ejecting the Federal Government from the road. And I look forward to working together with her to remove the federal government from the back of students, family, teachers and taxpayers,” he added.
Trump signed the command on Thursday. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo/File Photo)
“The bottom line, the education department failed to give results for US students, and today’s actions of Trump administration will help to ensure that our young country is in the first place.”
During the signature ceremony on Thursday, Trump explained that “the useful functions of the departments such as … Pell Grants, the title 1 resources for children with disabilities and special needs preserved, fully preserved.”
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“They will be preserved completely and redistributed to various other agencies and departments that will take care of them very well,” he said.
“But beyond these fundamental needs, my administration will take all the legally steps to close the department,” Trump announced.
The move of the removal of the education department comes in the midst of an aggressive overhaul of the Government Efficiency of Elon Musk (Doge) to reduce federal bureaucracy.
