{"id":35801,"date":"2025-03-12T09:45:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T09:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/education-department-plans-to-cut-half-its-workforce-as-trump-vows-to-wind-agency-down-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T09:45:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T09:45:28","slug":"education-department-plans-to-cut-half-its-workforce-as-trump-vows-to-wind-agency-down-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/education-department-plans-to-cut-half-its-workforce-as-trump-vows-to-wind-agency-down-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Education department plans to cut half its workforce as Trump vows to wind agency down \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of education Linda McMahon says move is part of president\u2019s mission to dismantle department<\/p>\n<p>Taoiseach <strong>Miche\u00e1l Martin<\/strong> is meeting <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong> at 10am US time for the annual <strong>St Patrick\u2019s Day<\/strong> celebrations, a week early this year because of congressional recess.<\/p>\n<p>He plans to tell Trump that the trade imbalance raised by secretary of state <strong>Marco Rubio<\/strong> in a phone call with the Irish foreign minister last week masks the complexity of the relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The public\u2019s views of the economy under Trump seem to be a drag on his overall approval rating, with a plurality of 48% saying they don\u2019t approve of Trump\u2019s handling of the economy, while 37% approve.<\/p>\n<p>Voters give Trump his highest ratings for his handling of immigration, with 48% approving and 40% disapproving. His weakest areas are the economy, health care and cryptocurrency, in which he has net approval ratings solidly underwater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/12\/donald-trump-us-politics-tariffs-mahmoud-khalil-education-latest-news-live-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of education Linda McMahon says move is part of president\u2019s mission to dismantle department Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin is meeting Donald Trump at 10am US time for the annual St Patrick\u2019s Day celebrations, a week early this year because of congressional recess. He plans to tell Trump that the trade imbalance raised by secretary of &#8230; <a title=\"Education department plans to cut half its workforce as Trump vows to wind agency down \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/education-department-plans-to-cut-half-its-workforce-as-trump-vows-to-wind-agency-down-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Education department plans to cut half its workforce as Trump vows to wind agency down \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}