{"id":36640,"date":"2025-03-21T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/first-thing-trump-signs-order-to-dismantle-department-of-education\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:22:17","slug":"first-thing-trump-signs-order-to-dismantle-department-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/first-thing-trump-signs-order-to-dismantle-department-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: Trump signs order to dismantle Department of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Executive order denounced as unconstitutional. Plus, Musk\u2019s daughter says his gesture \u2018definitely Nazi salute\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\">Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump signed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/20\/trump-executive-order-education-department\">executive order<\/a> on Thursday that instructs the US education secretary, Linda McMahon, to start dismantling the Department of Education, seemingly attempting to circumvent Congress\u2019s approval to formally close a federal department.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How has the department already been affected by Trump\u2019s state-shrinking efforts?<\/strong> The move comes after steps to undercut the department\u2019s authority by instituting a round of layoffs that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/12\/education-department-firings-trump\">nearly halved<\/a> its workforce and cancelled dozens of grants and contracts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/21\/first-thing-trump-signs-executive-order-to-dismantle-us-department-of-education\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive order denounced as unconstitutional. Plus, Musk\u2019s daughter says his gesture \u2018definitely Nazi salute\u2019 Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that instructs the US education secretary, Linda McMahon, to start dismantling the Department of Education, seemingly attempting to circumvent Congress\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"First Thing: Trump signs order to dismantle Department of Education\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/first-thing-trump-signs-order-to-dismantle-department-of-education\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Thing: Trump signs order to dismantle Department of Education\">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-36640","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\/36640","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=36640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}