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President Trump preps executive order to dismantle Education Department

www.usatoday.com President Trump preps executive order to dismantle Education Department

President Trump would direct Linda McMahon to "take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure" of the Education Department under a draft order.

President Trump preps executive order to dismantle Education Department

Nothing scary about this at all.

Update: apparently already backtracked: https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-preparing-executive-order-telling-education-secretary-dissolve/story?id=119499614

This might be the normal Trump tactic of floating horrible ideas, so don't be surprised if it comes back later.

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Once this happens, isn't his threat about funding for schools that allow protests pretty much hollow?
- He will have the police arrest them instead of the threat of getting expelled or have the national guard shoot them. Just like they did during the Civil Rights Movement and during the Vietnam War.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
  
  There's a muralist, Mike Alewitz, who survived the shooting. There WAS an NPR interview with him that went over it in depth but unfortunately (and rather concerningly to be honest) it seems to have been removed.

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