Trump Cheers Activists With Order to Dismantle Education Department

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, White House correspondent Akayla Gardner looks at the president’s actions to dismantle the Department of Education. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

President Donald Trump isn’t quite killing off the Department of Education, but he’s attempting to turn it into a zombie.