{"id":35938,"date":"2025-03-13T16:18:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/democratic-attorneys-general-sue-over-trump-gutting-of-education-department\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T16:18:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:18:41","slug":"democratic-attorneys-general-sue-over-trump-gutting-of-education-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/democratic-attorneys-general-sue-over-trump-gutting-of-education-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic attorneys general sue over Trump gutting of education department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coalition of more than 20 states files lawsuit to block cuts after more than 1,300 employees laid off in one day<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/13\/donald-trump-tariffs-canada-eu-us-politics-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A group of Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Thursday to block significant cuts to the Department of Education made by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>Led by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, the coalition of more than 20 states filed suit in federal court after the agency cut about half of its workforce. More than 1,300 employees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/12\/education-department-firings-trump\">were laid off<\/a> in a single day, the latest move toward Donald Trump\u2019s goal of dismantling the department entirely.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/13\/democrats-education-department-cuts-trump-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coalition of more than 20 states files lawsuit to block cuts after more than 1,300 employees laid off in one day US politics live \u2013 latest updates A group of Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Thursday to block significant cuts to the Department of Education made by the Trump administration this week. Led &#8230; <a title=\"Democratic attorneys general sue over Trump gutting of education department\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/democratic-attorneys-general-sue-over-trump-gutting-of-education-department\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democratic attorneys general sue over Trump gutting of education department\">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-35938","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\/35938","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=35938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}