President Donald Trump said Thursday he hopes his executive order to begin eliminating the Department of Education will put Secretary of Education Linda McMahon out of a job.
“It’s tremendous to have you, and hopefully, you won’t be there too long,” Trump said of McMahon, “but we’re going to find something else.”
Trump signed the order surrounded by children at desks and facing an audience of education leaders and Republican governors and lawmakers.
The executive order is “the first step toward doing what has to be done in education, which is to return the authority and resources to places near the students, parents, and teachers,” Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn, a guest at the signing, told The Daily Signal.
The order will preserve some useful functions of the Cabinet department while eliminating waste, Trump said.
“The…
