Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said that her agency took the first steps on Tuesday to eliminate “bureaucratic bloat” at the federal level and bring more power to the states during an interview on Tuesday about “the Ingraham Angle.”
The Ministry of Education has announced that it will Cut almost half From his workforce as President Donald Trump is moving to eliminate the agency. The staff of the department will be placed on Friday on administrative leave.
McMahon said that the decision was part of the president’s mandate. “His guideline is clear to me to close the Ministry of Education that we know we have to work with the congress, you know, to get it accomplished,” she told Fox News -Guestheer Laura Ingraham.
Department of Education cancels another $ 350 million in ‘awake’ expenses for contracts, subsidies
Morning Sun Lights The Front of the Department of Education Building, amid reports that the government of US President Donald Trump will take steps to relax the Federal Education Department, in Washington, US, 4 February 2025. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
Trump sworn on the campaign track To close the federal department and give parents the option of school choice.
“We are going to put an end to the education that comes from Washington, DC. We are going to close it – all those buildings everywhere and people who in many cases hate our children. We are going to send it all back to the United States,” he said in a campaign video.
The supreme commander is expected to sign an executive order that McMahon is officially instructed to look for ways Dismantle the Education department. However, Trump probably cannot eliminate it completely without an act of the congress.
The education secretary said that the approximately 2,000 remaining employees will ensure that outdoor programs such as subsidies and loans of the congress are met and are treated correctly.
Secretary of Education of the United States Linda McMahon visits “Fox & Friends” in Fox News Channel Studios on March 7, 2025 in New York City. ((Photo by Noam Galai/Getty images))
“None of that will fall due to the cracks,” she promised.
President of the American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten MSNBC told in an interview During the weekend, concluding the education department is a “disaster symbolic as much as a disaster in reality.”
“The federal government has no control over education, the states, local school boards. This is about opportunities,” she argued. “That is why so many people are so angry with it because they just take the opportunity from children who don’t have it.”
McMahon pushed back Weingarten’s claimsSaying that the Trump government does not want to remove education.
Randi Weingarten, chairman of the American Federation of Teachers during a town hall with 2020 presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and members of the American Federation of Federation of Teachers, in Philadelphia, PA, on 13 May 2019. ((Photo by Bastia Slabbers/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
“The president never said that. He removes bureaucracy from education, so that more money flows to the States. Better education is closest to the children, with parents, with the local superintendents, with local schoolboards,” she said Ingraham.
Click here to get the Fox News app
“I think we will see our scores go with our students when we can also train them with parental input.”
