President Donald Trump said on February 13 that he wants the Department of Education to close "immediately."
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump said: “I want to close it down immediately. The Department of Education is a big scam.” He said the American education system is ranked 40th in the world , but is number one in “cost of education per student.”
US Department of Education. (Photo: Getty)
Last week, President Trump said he wanted to close the Department of Education by executive order but needed support from Congress and teachers unions to fulfill his campaign pledge.
In January 2025, President Trump signed two executive orders on school funding, including one that would give students the right to school choice. Dismantling the US Department of Education could disrupt tens of billions of dollars in school funding and college tuition assistance.
President Trump has spent his first weeks in office pushing for major changes to the US government, ordering federal employees to return to work in offices or quit, seeking to cut costs and trying to close agencies like the US Agency for International Development. The Department of Education is also on Trump's top target list.
Previously, Mr. Trump said he had assigned Ms. Linda McMahon, his choice for Secretary of Education, to close the department.
Mr. Trump proposed closing the Department of Education during his first term from 2017 to 2021, but Congress did not act. The agency employs 4,245 people and spent $251 billion in the most recent year. The Department of Education also manages $1.6 trillion in student loans, the third-largest source of debt in the United States.
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