Next Musk DOGE target: Department of Education, according to reports
Next Musk DOGE target: Department of Education, according to reports
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The billionaire’s budget-razing lackeys are said to have embedded themselves inside the department’s D.C. headquarters. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are considering an executive order that would gut the Department of Education and take a first step toward abolishing it entirely, according to reports. The order would reportedly also call for legislative proposals for shutting the entire department down, though this would require an act of Congress.
The Post also reported that roughly 20 members of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is not an actual government department, have been working inside the Department of Education's Washington, D.C. headquarters as they look for programs and staff to slash. “I would not hold my breath that [closing the department] would ultimately become law,” Republican Representative Tim Walberg of Michigan, who chairs the House Education Committee, told The Washington Post last month.
