Advocates gear up for fight to preserve Education Department

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Source: The Hill

03/08/25 6:00 AM ET


President Trump’s battle to end the Department of Education is about to turn into a war as advocates prepare to defend the federal agency through litigation and civic action while he readies an executive order seeking its elimination.

“I expect that any actions to shutter the agency or to dismantle it will be challenged in the courts, and those challenges will prevail,” said Julie Margetta Morgan, a former deputy under secretary of Education during the Biden administration. “I think the other thing to think about here is that the decision to dismantle the Department of Education is incredibly unpopular, and people need to continue to voice their concerns about that and their displeasure with the Trump administration’s efforts and to hold policymakers accountable.”

The anticipated executive order has been in the works for months, and was reportedly set to be signed this week before an unexplained delay. “We’re starting the process,” Trump told reporters after one asked why the order was not signed on Thursday as the media initially reported it would be.

Trump has long called for the death of the department, telling Linda McMahon, his new Education secretary, he wants her to put herself out of a job. Eliminating the agency completely would require an act of Congress, but the president has said he’d like to do what he can via executive order.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5182445-department-of-education-trump-executive-order-mcmahon/

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A President cannot unilaterally eliminate a Department.

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1. Seems he can do anything with a do-nothing GOP Congress

and a corrupt SCROTUS.

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2. The Department of Organization Education ACT 1979 requires 60 vites

Full abolition of Department of Education is unlikely, as legislation to do so would have to clear the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Education_Organization_Act

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3. I see the repubs changing the filibuster rules ASAP

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5. Thune claimed he wouldn't do that

but we shall see. That would open up a nasty can of worms for them - especially since they have pissed off a whole lot of people.

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4. And people often forget that

the "Department of Education" was originally under "HEW" - the Department of "Health, Education, and Welfare".

S.210 - An act to establish a Department of Education, and for other purposes.

Signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.

Since my agency was under HHS and I started around the mid-80s, there was still a lot of "HEW" junk (pre-addressed envelopes, pamphlets, pre-printed blank memo sheets, "HEW" forms, etc.) around the office.