Trump -Advisors weigh actions to run the education department – Report | Trump -Administration

The Trump Administration weighs executive actions to dismantle the US education department as part of the efforts of Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) to seize control of federal expenses and cut the size of the government work, Wall Street Journal reported.

US officials have discussed an executive order that would close all the functions of the education department that have not been written explicitly to statutes, or move certain functions to other departments, According to the paper, quotes sources.

The order will call for a legislative proposal to abolish the department, it said, adding that advisers to Donald Trump are still discussing the details and time of such an order.

Meanwhile dozens of employees in the education department were notified on Friday that they had immediately been put on leave, Associated Press reportedWith at least 55 workers, access to their government’s E -mail accounts and asked not to report to the office.

E emails sent to employees said they were put on paid administrative leave under Trump’s executive order that prohibits diversity, justice and inclusion programs in the federal government, according to a trade union.

Before Trump joined in January, his transition team drafted an order that would have ordered the Education Secretary to continue eliminating the department and encouraging Congress to approve such an effort, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Trump’s election of education secretary, former WWE director Linda McMahon, is still waiting to be confirmed by the Senate. Some administrative officials believe that an executive order should wait until McMahon’s Senate Confirmation Hearing, which is not yet planned.

During his election campaign, Trump promised to eliminate the education department – which he described as being infiltrated by “radicals, Zealots and Marxists” – and giving states all power to control.

A US president alone cannot eliminate a department as Congress is obliged to approve the establishment or passing of an agency.

But Trump officials can change the most important parts of the department’s budget and policies or repeat the approach they used with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in the last week.

In recent days, Musk’s representatives at DOGE have suspended senior USAID staff, closed his website, access to sensitive staff files and locked employees out of the Washington DC office.

Workers for DOGE, an unofficial government department without Congress Authority Mandate, has also allegedly gained access to the US Treasury’s very sensitive database and federal payments

A DOGE team worked on Monday in the education department to implement Trump’s executive orders and agenda, a spokesman for the education department confirmed.