On Thursday, President Trump signed a big, beautiful executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take steps to permanently shut down the (unconstitutional) federal Department of Education (ED.) The final shutdown and elimination of this department will require Congress to act, but the executive can, in effect, reduce the ED to the leanest of skeleton crews in the meantime.
To that end, on Friday, President Trump announced that he is taking two major items out of the ED’s portfolio: The handling of student loans, one of the soon-to-be-former ED’s primary functions, will move to the Small Business Administration (SBA) and programs for disabled students will move to Health & Human Services (HHS.)
The change will happen, according to the president, “immediately.”
President Trump said Friday he is “immediately” moving the handling of federal…
