Trump sends mixed signals over the fate of the Education Department | News Donald Trump

President of the United States Donald Trump He hinted that he intended to move forward with plans for removing the Ministry of Education, despite the mixed signals of his administration.

“Well, I just want to do it. I mean, let’s start the procedure,” Trump said at the signature ceremony on Thursday in the oval office.

The Directive of the Ministry of Education was expected to be among the orders that Trump signed on Thursday.

But in hours that led to Trump’s public appearance in an oval office, print secretary of the White House of Karolina Leavitt convicted Announcement reports as “fake news”.

Still, Trump did not secretly unrivaled his intention to close the Ministry of Education, which he revised the point on Thursday. Journalists asked if there were any “thoughts” that would lead to delay, which the president refused.

“We are trying to bring schools back to the states. Some states run school,” Trump said, wrongly presenting the functions of the department.

The Education Department is in charge of distributing federal financial assistance, conducting educational research and ensuring a school compliance with policies against discrimination and accessibility.

It does not set the school curriculum, a decision left behind by state and local officials.

Still, Trump doubled the idea that the obstacle department was controlling the states over their schools.

“If they manage their own education, they will do much better than someone sitting in Washington, DC, which could not worry less about students in the middle west,” he said.

Asked what will happen to the distribution of federal student loans and scholarships of the Department, Trump has suggested awarding responsibility to other agencies.

“That would be brought to the treasury or administration or a small business trade,” Trump said, appointing other departments.

“We still had this discussion today. I don’t think education should manage loans. It’s not their job. I think it may be brought to a small business.”

Rumors of executive order

Trump was a campaign to reduce the federal government, moving to the closure of all agencies and release Thousands of workers.

“We reduce it,” Trump said about the greatness of the Government on Thursday. “You can’t have such fat. It’s like Nado like no one has seen anyone before.”

The Republican leader has already thrown out a bureau like the US International Development Agency (USAID), closing its headquarters and all staff by reducing the skeleton crew of essential employees.

But no president in recent history tried to close the federal department, which would require the approval of the congress.

The newspaper houses, including the Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, received an executive order draft that offered to see Trump approaching such a feat.

The drafts called the education secretary Linda McMahon, Trump’s named, to take “all the necessary steps” to soak the department to “maximum measure suitable and allow themselves by law”.

Trump has previously faced criticism over excessively too big a border Executive administrationincluding the denial of congress mandate agents and undermining the established congresses of other subjects, such as USAIDs.

Democrats immediately rushed to the news that the death of the department was immediate.

At a press conference on Thursday, the leader of the Chuck Schumer Senate Minority leader claimed that the closure of the department would harmlessly harm education, especially for Americans and low -income students.

“The radius of the explosion of this order will harm almost every child, every teacher, every family and every community,” Schumer said.

“Taking a chainsaw at the Department of Education and Subscribing his mission to educate our next generation would be awful for our schools, our families, the secretary for the children of McMahon should serve.”

What are the criticisms?

As with many agencies that Trump sought to disassemble, the education department has long been the target of conservative IREA.

In his campaign for the second term last year, Trump echoed with right-wing criticism that the education system has become too “awakened”-too much influence of social justice priority.

For example, the Republican Party platform in 2024, for example, Trump and his allies said that “they would provide safe environments for learning without political mixing.”

Part of their strategy was to close the Department of Education, which implements politics such as the title IX, which discrimination prohibits on the basis of gender.

It also provides compliance with federal laws that guarantee equal access to education for students with disabilities.

In addition, the department plays a financial role in the country’s education system, providing roughly 8 percent funds for public primary and secondary schools.

It also distributes federal grants and funds to cover financial assistance of students at faculties and universities. Overall, the education department has about $ 102 billion, which represents 0.9 percent of the total federal budget for 2025.

But Trump presented a vision in which the responsibility of the education department is diverted to individual countries.

“We want to bring back education back to states where it belongs,” Trump said At the first meeting of the cabinet of his second term on February 26. “Iowa should have education. Indiana should run his own education.”

But politicians like Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont have warned that the redistribution of the tasks of the department will simply increase the tax burden on individual countries – especially rural with fewer resources from which they will get out.

“Should we make the education department more effective? I believe we are. Should we also destroy it for the labor class families throughout this country? Absolutely no, “Sanders said at a press conference on Thursday.

ABC News reported that Trump’s administration on Thursday organized a planned executive order due to a question of a potential public return.

The legalness of Trump’s order

The Ministry of Education returned to the 19th century, under President Andrew Jackson – one of Trump’s presidential idols.

However, the modern subject began to be shaped in the 20th century, as the Federal Government began to take on a more assertive role in public education, partly because of the issues of civil rights.

In 1979, then President Jimmy Carter founded the education department he is known today to unite various federal programs under the same umbrella. His leader has been a post at the cabinet level since then.

But only for a long time, there was a conservative return to the ward, as a potential interference with state rights.

In addition to seeing himself to close the department, Trump also tried to reshape his American education in other ways.

He and McMahon Secretary are a loud supporters of the “choice at school” policy that would allow parents to use taxpayers’ means – usually intended for public education – payment of private schools.

Trump also said that his administration works on the return of what he believes are ideologically driven ideas around racial and gender equality in education.

But Trump himself was not shy in the condition of federal support to adhering to his political priorities.

Tuesday, for example, Trump wrote on social media that universities have to break students participating in “illegal protests” or face the consequencesincluding stopping federal funding.

His words were mostly understood that they were related to the Pro-Palestinian demonstrations, but they were ambiguous enough to include other protests.