Trump said that he hopes Democrats would support his executive order. 'I hope they're going to be voting for it,' said Trump, speaking from the White House in front of a group of children seated at desks. 'Because ultimately it may come before them.' Project 2025, the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation's blueprint for the Trump administration, provides detailed recommendations for closing the Education Department, which was created by an act of Congress in 1979. Trump's new executive order calls for Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to 'take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure (of) the Department of Education and return education authority to the States, while continuing to ensure the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely,' according to a White House statement distributed to media. I am an anthropologist and have been studying U.S. political culture for years. During Trump's first presidency, I wrote a...
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