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Whenever there is a stimulus of fear in the words “reorganization,” “merger,” “acquisition,” or “hostile takeover.” Employees engage in resumes, whisper to expected layoffs and evaluate their choices.
We now see the same phenomenon manifested in the capital of our country. Since the occupation last month, President Donald Trump has promised the blitz to remove waste through federal departments, cut ideological plans and restore fiscal sanity to U.S. governance. Although Republican presidents have long promised to “reduce the size of the government,” they usually don’t do so, but the bureaucracy always wins. This time it may be different.
The Trump second administration is surprisingly aggressive in its efforts to reform federal agencies, including controlled demolition of the United States Agency for International Development and a bold acquisition plan for government employees. Elon Musk, head of the efficiency department of the presidential administration, has a long history of success, sometimes extreme costs. For example, when Musk took over Twitter, he fired 80% of his employees while managing to improve the product and improve its profitability.
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The next phase of the conflict between Trump and the bureaucracy appears to be the Department of Education, with the president correctly identifying as a breeding ground for left-wing ideology. Since 1980, almost all Republican presidential candidates have promised to shrink or abolish the department, but their budgets are only growing.
If the Trump administration does want to demolish the Department of Education, it needs to know the best way to do it. (Jose Luis Magana)
When Trump made the same promise on the campaign last year, I doubted it. But Musk changed the computing: the tech entrepreneur has already routed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and as I can confirm from my own report, sent his Governor-General engineer to investigate the doe. Although the department, as a public entity, does not have the same balance sheet as the company, it must be broken down and eventually closed.
What is the best way? The government must first understand that the Ministry of Education supervises three main activities: college student loans and grants; K-12 funding; and ideological production, which includes a range of programs, grants, civil rights programs and third-party NGOs that create the left wing Content to promote local schools. Turning off all three functions at the same time is impossible or impossible. Instead, Education Minister nominee Linda McMahon, working with Musk and Doge, should be handled separately.
First, the department should remove all college student loans and grant grants to independent financial entities. The federal government currently supports $1.6 trillion in student loans and issuing another $110 billion in student aid each year. It’s a huge portfolio that requires a dedicated team of administrators, risk analysts and cost cutters. These professionals should reform the student loan portfolio, transfer as much as possible to the private market, and limit the total loans, which partly is responsible for administrative inflation and the Student-Debt crisis.
Second, the government, in cooperation with Congress, should grant the Department of Education’s K-12 funding program to U.S. states. The ministry sends about $100 billion to state governments and local school districts throughout the country every year, usually with heavy restrictions and severe ideological conditions.
For example, the Biden administration is trying to use this federal mass racial and gender politics to local school districts. Instead of legalizing the mandatory power of that department, the government should not simply raise K-12 spending in all sectors, divide by the chasm of state population, the government should allocate the results to each state without additional conditions. States can continue to use this funding for meals, low-income schools and special education, but they can be flexible in how they can best meet their local needs.
Third, Trump must close the ideological production centers of the Department of Education and terminate the hiring of bureaucrats that operate them. The ministry maintains a network of ideological centers through its research programs and various NGOs that survive on departmental funding and promote left-wing identity activism.
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These groups have become a breeding ground for gradual identity politics, promoting theories of “systemic racism” and the idea that men can become women. Such activities cannot serve the public good and should not be granted public subsidies, especially under the leadership of a conservative president who promises to end the federal government’s key racial theories and gender ideologies.
Similarly, the Ministry of Education’s Civil Rights Office has ostensibly a lofty purpose, but has also been used as a beating ram to promote left-wing ideology. The office’s core civil rights functions can be easily folded to the Ministry of Justice, and without the Ministry of Education’s left-wing ideology and civil rights behavior, the government can provide the supervision needed.
Although the department, as a public entity, does not have the same balance sheet as the company, it must be broken down and eventually closed.
There is a public question about authority. Some members of Trump’s inner circle believe that the president can remove the Department of Education by just carrying out actions, just like the United States Agency for International Development. However, it is unlikely to terminate the Ministry of Education without specific legislation, or at least the agreement that Congress has delegated the restructuring power to the President, as it was conducted regularly between 1932 and 1984.
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Public support is a crucial consideration when developing any bold reform. To maintain American approval, the Trump administration must explain that college students will still be able to obtain loans, K-12 schools will still receive funds for special education programs, and civil rights will still be protected by the Justice Department. This ensures that the argument can focus on eliminating unpopular and divided left-wing ideology, as Musk has done to the USAID.
Now is the time. The president is best to enact major changes in his first 100 days when the government gains high public recognition. Musk also knows that hesitation shows powerlessness. Abolish the Ministry of Education – Don’t look back.
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