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In Trump’s search to close the education department, the congress and its own agenda can stand in the way of

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is preparing to intestine the American education department to the full degree of his power, reducing his administration while putting pressure on employees to stop. Yet his promise to close the department is clashing with another reality: most expenses – and its existence – is organized by the congress.

An executive order in preparation by the White House seems to recognize the boundaries of the power of the president. The planned command would lead its training to start the agency, but urge the congress to pass on a measure that the abolishing, according to sources that are familiar with the plan.

During a press conference of the White House on Tuesday, Trump extinguished about the first task for Linda McMahon, his nominated for educational secretary.

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“I want Linda to get herself out of a job,” said Trump.

Trump campaigned a promise to close the department and said it was infiltrated by “radicals, zealers and Marxists.” In the almost five decades since the agency was founded, conservatives occasionally made attempts to close it, where critics said that the tax money wastes and the federal government inserts in local decisions of education.

Trump is expected to give his education a deadline to deliver a plan for the winddown of the agency. But even some of his allies wonder how far he can go without a congress. Some of the most important programs of the department are required by federal legislation, including Title I money for schools with low incomes and federal student loans.

That was a source of frustration during Trump’s first term of office, when his training head repeatedly sought budget reductions, but instead saw the congress increase the expenditure of the office every year.

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What is more, Trump’s search to close the department can be complicated by his own agenda. He has already created new work for the department, including plans to promote ‘patriotic’ education and efforts to go behind schools that give controversial lessons about race and gender. The agency has also opened new investigations into colleges, after Trump a harsh action against the anti -Semitism of the campus.

What Trump can actually do to reduce the expenses can be limited to small fractures of the budget, according to one source with knowledge of the plan. It would hardly be the annual budget of $ 79 billion from the Dents department.

The sources spoke about the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the plan.

Getting support from the congress would offer another test of Trump’s Sway. Some Republicans have evoked doubts about the popularity of closing the department or reducing his programs, which support both Republican and Democratic states.

The house considered changing a bill to close the agency in 2023, but 60 Republicans came to Democrats to resist it. Last week rep. Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, against the introduced legislation to close the agency. The proposal of one sentence said that the Education Department “will end on December 31, 2026.”

Yet there are signs that Trump is determined to realize his promise.

Dozens of employees of the educational department were imposed on Friday paid leave in response to an executive order that prohibits diversity, equity and inclusion in the federal government. Most employees do not work in Dei, but had followed an optional diversity course that was promoted by the department, according to a trade union that represents department staff. Trump’s order argued that the government’s government officials were dismissed in the “maximum size permitted by law”.

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The White House has also put pressure on federal employees to stop. Employees in the field of education were to those who received an offer to leave their jobs on 6 February and receive a buy -out worth seven months of salary.

A new wave of fear enveloped the agency when a team of the so -called department of the government efficiency of Elon Musk appeared this week at the offices of the department. A spokesperson for an educational department confirmed that a team was on site on Monday, but did not provide any details about the nature of his work. The colleagues of Musk have already tried to close the American Bureau for International Development and to access sensitive payment systems at the Treasury Department.

Trump’s comments at his press conference raised alarms under schools and states that depend on federal money. Federal Financing makes a small part of the public school budgets from-hevoor 14%but it adds targeted support for schools with low incomes and special education, in addition to other subsidy programs.

In Minnesota, Democrats warned on Tuesday in the state meeting for the possible impact of Trump’s Order. Senator Mary Kunesh said she was worried that the order could disrupt the financing and called for more clarity about the plan.

“Imagine that we have frozen billions of dollars at the federal level,” Kunesh said at a press conference. “How are we going to ensure that they have the curriculum that they have to learn?”

Some Republicans in the legislative power of Minnesota said there was no reason to panic without full details of the order.

Those details are expected to be resolved by Trump’s training, and the president did not immediately say whether he would look to retain the core work of the department.

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A potential model can be found in Project 2025, a blueprint for Trump’s second term created by the Conservative Heritage Foundation. The proposal requires that many of the largest programs in the department are excluded to other agencies.

According to the 2025 plan, Title I financing, the largest source of federal money to public schools, would be moved to the Ministry of Health and Human Services and are given as block subsidies to states to spend the way they want, without Features. The Office for Civil Rights of the Education Department would shift to the Ministry of Justice.

Trump has searched for Project 2025, although he has hired some of the staff behind it, and in some problems there is a considerable overlap with his own platform.

Democrats in the congress quickly jump on Trump’s plan. Senator Edward Markey, D-Mass., A member of the Healthcare, Education, Labor and Pensions Commission, called it an “attack on educators, families and students.” He promised to fight with it.

Trump’s plan would complicate the confirmation hearing for McMahon, a professional wrestling mogul from billionaire and old Trump. Some advisers had asked the White House to keep the order still to prevent thorny questions, and others insist it is signed after her confirmation. No date has yet been set for her hearing.

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Associated Press writer Steve Karnowski has contributed from Minneapolis.

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