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Trump’s Playbook to Gut the Education Department

On today’s Big Take podcast: Congress continues to fund the department. The Trump Administration is trying to eliminate it anyway.

US President Donald Trump and Linda McMahon, after signing an executive order in the East Room of the White House.

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The Department of Education has been a target of critics for decades. Republicans in the Oval Office have repeatedly tried to shrink the agency, and in his second term, President Trump has vowed to eliminate it altogether.