President of the United States Donald Trump He pointed out that he intends to move forward in plans to dismantle the Ministry of Education, despite the mixed signals of his administration.

“Well, I just want to do it. Trump said at a signing ceremony at the Oval Office on Thursday, I mean, we started the operation.”

The guidance of the Ministry of Education was expected to be among the orders that Trump signed on Thursday.

But in the hours that preceded Trump’s general appearance in the Oval Office, White House press secretary Caroline Levit I was denounced Reports on an advertisement in the name of “more fake news”.

However, Trump did not hide from his intention to close the Ministry of Education, a point that was reviewed on Thursday. Correspondents asked whether he had “second ideas” that would lead to delay, which was rejected by the president.

We are trying to return schools to the United States. “Let the states run schools,” Trump said.

He accused the Ministry of Education of distributing federal financial aid, conducting educational research and ensuring school compliance with combating discrimination and ease.

The curricula do not specify, a decision that remained for government and local officials.

However, Trump doubled the idea that the administration was an obstacle to state controlling its schools.

He said: “If they manage their own education, they will do much better than someone sitting in Washington, DC, they cannot care about students in the Middle West.”

When asked about what could happen to distribute loans and grants to federal students, Trump suggested setting this responsibility to other agencies.

“This will be brought to either the Treasury, the Small Business Administration, or the Trade,” Trump said.

We have already held this discussion today. I do not think that education should deal with loans. This is not their work. I think it will be brought to small businesses perhaps. “

Rumors about an executive order

Trump was in a campaign to reduce the size of the federal government, and to move to the closure of the entire agencies Demobilization Thousands of workers.

“We fry it,” Trump said of the government on Thursday. “You cannot get this type of fat. It is blown as it has never been unprecedented.”

The Republican leader has already softened offices such as the United States Agency for International Development (the United States Agency for International Development), which led to the closure of its headquarters and reduced its employees to a skeleton of the basic employees.

However, no president in modern history tried to close a federal ministry, which requires Congress.

News means including The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal have made drafts of an executive thing about how Trump dealt with such a feat.

The drafts of the Minister of Education, Linda McMahon, which is “Trump”, called for “all necessary steps” to end the administration to “the appropriate maximum extent and allowed under the law.”

Trump previously faced criticism to overcome his limits Executive AuthorityIncluding by blocking expensive funds from Congress and undermining other entities created by Congress, such as the American Agency for International Development.

Democrats immediately pursued news that the administration’s disappearance was imminent.

At a press conference on Thursday, the leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, argued that the closure of the department would harm an irreplaceable way to reach education, especially for Americans and low -income students.

“The diameter of the explosion will harm almost every child, a teacher, every family, and every society.” Schumer said. “

“Taking a saw to the Ministry of Education and undermining its mission to educate our next generation will be terrible for our schools and our families, and it is assumed that the Minister of Children will serve McMahon.”

What are the criticisms?

As with many agencies Trump sought to dismantle, the Ministry of Education has long been a target for the province.

In his campaign for a second term last year, Trump repeated the right-wing criticism that the education system had “wake up”-very influenced by the priorities of social justice.

On the 2024 Republican Party platform, for example, Trump and his allies said they “will guarantee safe learning environments free of political intervention.”

Part of their strategy was the closure of the Ministry of Education, which imposes policies such as the ninth address, which prohibits sexual discrimination.

School compliance also guarantees federal laws that guarantee access to education for students with disabilities.

In addition, the administration plays a financial role in the country’s education system, and provides approximately 8 percent Of public and secondary schools.

It also distributes scholarships and federal funds to cover students in colleges and universities. In general, the Ministry of Education has about $ 102 billion, which represents 0.9 percent of the total federal budget for 2025.

But Trump is the clearest vision where the Ministry of Education’s responsibilities are reset to individual countries.

“We want to transfer education to the United States, where it belongs,” Trump He said At the first cabinet meeting in his second term on February 26. “Iowa should get education. Indiana must manage its own education.”

But politicians such as Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont warned that the redistribution of the administration’s tasks will simply increase the tax burden on individual countries – especially those with a few resources that must be extracted.

“Do we need to make the Ministry of Education more efficient?

ABC News reported that the Trump administration has ridiculed its planned executive on Thursday regarding questions about the possible general reaction.

Trump’s legitimacy

The Ministry of Education has roots dating back to the nineteenth century, during the era of President Andrew Jackson – one of Trump’s presidential idols.

But the modern entity began to crystallize in the twentieth century, as the federal government began to play a more assertive role in public education, in part due to civil rights issues.

In 1979, then President Jimmy Carter established the Ministry of Education as it is known today, in order to unify the various federal programs in the same umbrella. Its leader has been a leaflet at the cabinet level since then.

But for a long time, there has been a conservative retreat towards administration, as a possible obstacle to the rights of states.

In addition to pressure to close the administration, Trump also sought to reshape American education in other ways.

He and Minister McMahon are vocal supporters of the “school choice” policies that would allow parents to use taxpayer funds – usually designated for public education – to pay the price of private schools.

Trump also said that his administration is working to decline in what he believes is ideological ideas about ethnic equality and humanity in education.

But Trump himself was not ashamed to adapt federal support to adhere to his political priorities.

On Tuesday, for example, Trump books On social media, universities must suppress students who participate in “illegal protests” or The consequences of confrontationIncluding stopping in federal financing.

His words were largely understood to refer to the demonstrations supporting the Palestinians, but they were mysterious enough to include other protests as well.