Education Secretary Linda McMahon is poised to rapidly implement layoffs and transfer operations of the Education Department to other agencies following a Supreme Court ruling. This decision pauses a lower court order affecting 1,400 layoffs, enabling the administration's strategy to dismantle the Department. Trump aims to return education power to the states, while discussions are ongoing regarding the management of federal student loans, with Treasury likely to take over after negotiations were delayed by court interventions.
"The Federal Government has been running our Education System into the ground, but we are going to turn it all around by giving the Power back to the PEOPLE," Trump said late Monday in a post on Truth Social.
Trump and McMahon have acknowledged only Congress has authority to close the Education Department fully, but both have suggested its core functions could be parceled out to different federal agencies.
The department had also recently struck a deal to outsource operations, indicating a significant shift in how education management will be approached going forward.
Department lawyers have already previewed McMahon's next steps in court filings, signaling an aggressive timeline for the implementation of layoffs and restructuring.
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