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Posted on 03/24/2026 4:55:22 AM PDT by Libloather
The Department of Education (ED) just took a big step closer to shutting down.
The Trump administration announced on Thursday an interagency agreement between the ED and the Treasury to move student lending operations to the Treasury, which will "assume operational responsibility for collecting on defaulted Federal student loan debt and provide operational support to ED’s efforts to return borrowers to repayment," the ED said in a release.
"I think we've been very clear about this last week that this is a multiphase process," Nicholas Kent, Undersecretary of Education, told Fox News Digital on Monday.
Throughout the 2024 campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump promised to eliminate the Department of Education and signed an executive order directing his administration to start disbanding it.
"The Secretary has been on the record saying that these interagency agreements are proof of concept, that we want to show Congress, that we want to show families, we want to show moms and dads and families that the Department of Education does not need to be here for federal grant aid and federal student loans to continue flowing to borrowers," Kent said.
Andrew Gillen of the Cato Institute told Fox News Digital that this particular shift in responsibilities is significant because previous interagency agreements have been "relatively small."
"Whereas this student loan move–this is the biggest staffing and the biggest budgetary component of the Department of Education. So, if it's sent over to Treasury, this really does indicate that this is moving a substantial portion of the Department of Education elsewhere," Gillen said.
"I think that that's absolutely right," Kent said in agreement with Gillen's analysis. "Characterizing it as the next and largest step toward winding down the Department of Education is absolutely the right way to think about it."
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Worthless agency. Did a lot more harm than good.
To get worthless government agencies out of our lives this is the best place to start. Sure the USAID was evil but it didn’t make retards out of our children.
I hope we’re about to find out how much USAID money was grifting its way back into domestic politics and affecting those greatly. If we crush it in the mid-terms, that will be a sign.
USAID may have been the root of a *lot* of evil.
Underperforming California school district paying enormous sum to teach kids with a ‘rap curriculum’
Yet more good news. All the dept of education has accomplished is test scores dropping since they were created.
Good job there, you pathetic losers.
I’m surprised that toilet hadn’t been close down long before now. We need to make our schools safer for our children. SHUT IT DOWN!!!
Yes...Still not tired of winning...
The rule of opposites...
The Department of Education’s alleged purpose was to make kids smarter.
Decades have proven it has made kids a lot dumber.
Agreed. School House Rock is still ingrained in my brain from childhood!
A journey of 10,000 miles begins with one step at a time. At least we’re moving in the right direction.
Good riddance!
Save America Act singing:
I’m just a bill, an ordinary bill, sitting here on Capitol Hill....
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