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Trump Tells Musk He Plans to Close the Department of Education
Trump vowed to shut down the Department of Education Monday night, telling billionaire CEO Elon Musk during a livestream conversation on X that moving education back to the states will be one of his first acts as president.
The former president shared his plan after praising Argentine President Javier Milei, who has set his country back on a path to prosperity after slashing government spending.
“What I’m gonna do, one of the first acts, I want to close up the Department of Education and move education back to the states,” Trump said.
Trump acknowledged potential drawbacks to his plan, predicting that poorly run Democrat states like California would, at least initially, struggle.
“If you moved education back to the 50 [states], you’ll have some that won’t do well. But they’ll actually be forced to do better, because it’ll be a pretty bad situation,” he said.
“You look at Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, he’s terrible—he does a terrible job. So he’s not going to do great with education, Trump said. “But out of the 50 states, I would bet that 35 would do great, and 20 of them would be as good as Norway.”
