The End of the Department of Education
Elon, Trump, and the Oligarchs prepare to deliver on promise of Project 2025
Donald Trump has so little respect for the Department of Education that he’s recommending a pro wrestling executive to head it up.
More specifically, it seems likely that Trump is asking former WWE CEO Linda McMahon to head up the dismantling of the DoE.
A recent story in the Wall Street Journal details the Administration’s current thinking on the subject:
Trump administration officials are weighing executive actions to dismantle the Education Department as part of the campaign by billionaire Elon Musk and his allies to shrink federal agencies and slash the size of the government workforce.
The dismantling would end certain functions while distributing others to other parts of the federal government. According to Trump, funding that flows from the Department to states will now just go straight to the states. In theory, he’d need an act of Congress to make that happen.
The conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 also called for eliminating the department.
And, no worries: Elon Musk and his crack team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are looking into the “best” ways to destroy the Ed Dept.
Before Trump took office, the administration’s transition team drafted an executive order that would have directed the education secretary to make a plan to eliminate the department and call on Congress to approve such an effort, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The Education Department is among the agencies that Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is looking at as part of its efforts to overhaul federal bureaucracy, the people said.
In other words, the oligarchs want to end federal support of education as we’ve known it.
More likely, Elon and his band of raiders want to find ways to shift public money to private profit.
While completely eliminating the department would require an act of Congress, rules and laws seem not to apply to Team Trump and the Oligarchs:
Trump’s aides could replicate the approach they used to disassemble the core functions of the U.S. Agency for International Development. In recent days, Musk’s representatives have gained access to sensitive documents at the agency, shut down its website, deactivated email addresses and told employees not to come to the office.
The group used a similar approach in neutering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB):
At CFPB, staff were ordered to stop doing their core functions - no enforcement, no rulemaking, no taking on the robber barons pillaging the people’s paychecks.
These oligarchs and their sympathizers have been planning this takeover for a long time.
They are now in control and moving fast. It seems the current GOP majority in Congress has no intention of stopping them.