Education Department smack down, Macron’s nuclear backlash, $88,000 Cheeto & more
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🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:31.3 | From CNN, I'm Charlie Drever with the five things you need to know for Thursday, March 6th. |
| 0:38.1 | President Donald Trump is getting ready to sign an order that would dismantle the education |
| 0:42.9 | department. |
| 0:44.4 | That's what people familiar with the matter told CNN, saying he's expected to make a decision |
| 0:49.0 | this week on whether to push ahead with first steps. |
| 0:52.5 | I asked CNN's Kevin Liptack what we know. |
| 0:55.3 | Charlie, this is a step the president has long signaled he's been planning to take. |
| 0:59.5 | Now the order's been drafted. |
| 1:01.2 | The president could sign it as early as today. |
| 1:03.5 | What it would do is direct Linda McMahon, the education secretary, just confirmed on Monday, |
| 1:08.8 | to take steps to facilitate the department's closure, to the extent that it's permitted by law, |
| 1:13.6 | which I think is the acknowledgement that this would require Congress to act if they're going to fully eliminate the Department of Education. |
| 1:19.6 | They would need 60 votes to break a filibuster in the Senate, which they just don't have at the moment. |
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