The Department of Education as we knew it has now come to an end. President Donald Trump

has issued an executive order to largely dismantle the department. In other news, Doge just got

a lot more authority over USAID. This takes place just after a federal judge ordered Doge to stop

its efforts to cut spending from the agency, arguing it could

violate the Constitution. And meanwhile, non-U.S. citizens almost got voting rights in New York City,

but the attempt to enshrine that into law has now gotten shut down. Also, a new campaign to get

heavy metals out of baby formula has been launched

by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and he's referring to this campaign as Operation

Stork Speed. I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening

to Crossroads.

The Department of Education, the one we used to know is no more. It is now something else.

Rumors leading up to Thursday yesterday were that Donald Trump was going to abolish the department in its entirety. And the official announcement did not go that far,

but it is coming close. White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt, she detailed the changes and noted

the DOE will now be much smaller and will only keep its most basic functions.

The Department of Education was founded in the 1970s and since then we have spent more than

$3 trillion at this federal bureaucracy. What has been the return on that investment for the American taxpayer?

Levels that are less than ideal, less than proficient.

Our children's test scores are incredibly

concerning when it comes to reading rates, literacy rates, math, and science test scores. The numbers

prove that. And the president is finally, this president is finally taking much needed action

to return education to where it belongs. And that's to educators closest to students in their classrooms and their respective states.

She goes on to explain, the Department of Education is not going away. It will live on, but in a much smaller form than what we currently know.

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