U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order aiming to shut down the Department of Education, fulfilling a major campaign promise, according to a White House summary seen by Reuters
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00:00U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order aiming to shut down the Department of
00:05Education, fulfilling a major campaign promise, according to a White House summary seen by
00:09Reuters.
00:11The order directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to, quote, take all necessary steps
00:15to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority
00:20to the states.
00:21It also mandates that any programs funded by the Department of Education should not,
00:26quote, advance DEI, short for Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion, or gender ideology.
00:32Before the order was signed, a group of Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit to
00:36stop Trump from closing the department.
00:38Abolishing the Department of Education would be Trump's first attempt to close a cabinet-level
00:42agency.
00:44Trump has often called the existence of the agency, quote, a big con job.