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President Trump signs an executive order seeking to abolish the Education Department.

Plus, why Florida lawmakers are considering getting rid of property taxes.

Home values have gone up so significantly around the country that people are seeing their property tax bills go up alongside that.

And so there's been a real movement to do something about that in a number of states.

And home sales were up last month.

What's behind the rise?

It's Thursday, March 20th.

I'm Alex Osala for the Wall Street Journal.

This is the PM edition of What's News,

the top headlines and business stories

that move the world today.

Thank you. the top headlines and business stories that move the world today. New data out today from the National Association of Realtors shows that U.S. existing home sales

rose 4.2% in February from the Pryger month. That was far better than economists expected and was the

first month-over-month increase in two months. Nicole Friedman, who covers the U.S. housing market for

the journal, explains the rise, despite the fact that mortgage rates haven't changed much.

A few years ago, when rates shot up from 3% to higher than 6%, that really, really shocked the market. And buyers couldn't let go

of what they could have afforded with 3% rates compared to what they could afford with rates at 6 or

7%. It was such a dramatic increase that really spooked people. But now it's been a couple of years and rates have been hovering

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