US President Donald Trump will on Thursday sign an executive order closing down the Education Department,” a fact sheet published by the White House stated. Trump will hold a White House event to sign the order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure the Department of Education and return education authority to the States, while continuing to ensure the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.”
As reported by lindaikejisblog, according to the administration’s own numbers, Trump inherited 4,133 department employees. Nearly 600 of them have chosen to leave since then, by retiring or quitting. And last week, 1,300 employees were told they would be losing their jobs as part of a reduction-in-force. That’s 2,183 employees remaining at the department – roughly half the total it had only a few weeks earlier. President Jimmy Carter established the department in 1979 following bipartisan votes in Congress on the Department of Education Organization Act.
McMahon made the choice a short while ago to dramatically reduce the Education Department staff by halving its workers. She referred to the job layoffs as the first stage of shutting down the department.
“That was the president’s command,” McMahon explained to Fox News last week during an interview. “His instructions to me, of course, are to shut down the Department of Education, which we know we’re going to have to work with Congress, you know, to do that.”
McMahon also vowed during her Senate confirmation hearing to work with Congress to assist Trump’s plan to abolish the department. She indicated in a company-wide memo this month that sweeping changes are imminent.
“Our job is to respect the will of the American people and the President they elected, who has tasked us with accomplishing the elimination of bureaucratic bloat here at the Department of Education—a momentous final mission—quickly and responsibly,” she wrote, according to a copy obtained by NBC News. The Senate confirmed McMahon in a 51-45 vote. No Democrat voted for her.
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