February 6, 2025

President Donald Trump and his allies — including his former Education secretary — have publicly zeroed in on the Education Department as a potential next target for his cutting spree, an action the president vowed to accomplish on the campaign trail and one Republicans have been calling for for decades.

The Trump administration and its backers have suggested the department has evolved into a weapon wielded by progressives to enforce “woke” education policies and is a waste of taxpayer dollars. Trump has mused about allocating the department’s funding to the states.

On Thursday, the push got a notable endorsement from Betsy DeVos, Trump’s secretary of Education in his first term, who wrote in an op-ed for The Free Press that the department should be scrapped entirely.

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