He did so at a White House ceremony, surrounded by children sitting at school desks.
My administration will take all lawful steps to shut down the department, Trump said.
Were going to shut it down and shut it down as quickly as possible.
Donald Trump signs an executive order in the East Room of the White house in Washington, D.C., March 20, 2025.Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Its doing us no good.
We want to return our students to the states.
Trump continued to tout other nations doing a good job in education, including China.
We cant now say that bigness is making it impossible to educate, because China is very big.
The president believes eliminating the Department of Education will help America compete.
It sounds strange, doesnt it, the Department of Education were going to eliminate it.
Trump has had it out for the Department of Education dating back to his first term in office.
He did what he could to undermine it then, and is now moving to axe it entirely.
The departmentannounced a week laterthat it was lopping off nearly half of its workforce, cutting 1,300 employees.
The Treasury doesnt want it, one source told CNN.
Weve cut the number of bureaucrats in half, Trump gloated during the signing ceremony.
In reality, the Department of Education has very little to do with creating state-level curriculums.
Yes, the meme misspelled Department.
