Trump Order Expected to Abolish the Department of Education
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 8 March 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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President Donald Trump is expected to abolish the Department of Education. A draft of the executive order was detailed by several news outlets ahead of the expected announcement, and this also aligns with what Trump had promised early in his campaign. The plan is to have the school systems handled by the states, and not by the federal government.
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| 0:00.0 | President Donald Trump is reportedly expected to abolish the Department of Education in a new executive order. |
| 0:07.0 | In other news, Head of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now taking actions to stop the spread of measles. |
| 0:15.1 | He's saying this is now a top priority of HHS, and he's also sending vaccine doses to affected areas. And meanwhile, the Department of |
| 0:24.1 | Justice under Attorney General Pambondi could clear the way to fire so-called administrative |
| 0:30.0 | law judges who have been blocking the Trump administration. I'm the Epic Times Senior |
| 0:34.6 | Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:44.5 | President Donald Trump is expected to do it. He's going to abolish the Department of Education. |
| 0:51.1 | At least that's what they're saying, right? Now, a draft of the executive order, |
| 0:55.0 | because he wants to do it through executive action, it was detailed by several news outlets |
| 0:58.8 | ahead of the expected announcement. Some said it was going to be yesterday, could it be today, |
| 1:03.7 | we don't really know, but this also aligns with what Trump had promised early in his campaign. |
| 1:08.8 | The plan, he said, right, is to have the school system |
| 1:12.8 | handled by the states, not by the federal government, although the federal government will probably |
| 1:18.4 | be involved to an extent. Wall Street Journal said this, President Trump is expected to issue |
| 1:24.3 | an executive order as soon as Thursday, being yesterday, aimed at abolishing |
| 1:29.1 | the Education Department. According to people briefed on the matter, it says a draft of |
| 1:34.0 | the order suggesting he already wrote it, viewed by the Wall Street Journal, directs |
| 1:39.0 | Education Secretary Linda McCanon to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the education |
| 1:46.8 | department based on the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, meaning maybe they won't get |
| 1:53.3 | rid of everything, but probably most of it. Now it says the order has been in the work since |
| 1:58.7 | Trump's transition. In early February, the journal reported that administration officials were considering such a move, |
| 2:06.2 | and they said, quote, |
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