Add this to the list of Federal order’s against the Trump/DOGE/Project 2025 Cuts….
Trump CANNOT shut down Government Department’s Congress created….
A district judge on Thursday blocked President Trump’s executive order calling for the closure of the Department of Education — as well as against the reduction in force that laid off half of the agency’s workers.
The ruling is a blow to Trump’s efforts to eliminate the department and the quick actions taken by Education Secretary Linda McMahon to make that campaign pledge a reality.
The plaintiffs “have provided an in-depth look into how the massive reduction in staff has made it effectively impossible for the Department to carry out its statutorily mandated functions,” District Judge Myong Joun said.
Joun ordered the department to reinstate the hundreds of employees who were fired after Trump took office.
Madi Biedermann, deputy assistant secretary for communications for the Education Department, said the federal agency “will immediately challenge this on an emergency basis.”….
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“President Trump and the Senate-confirmed Secretary of Education clearly have the authority to make decisions about agency reorganization efforts, not an unelected Judge with a political axe to grind. This ruling is not in the best interest of American students or families,” she added.
The ruling also stifles Trump’s directive to move student loans and programs for students with disabilities outside the Department of Education….
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Only an act of Congress can definitively shut down the Education Department, but Trump and McMahon are seeking to reduce its size and scope as much as possible while also calling on lawmakers to eliminate it entirely….
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