2025-03-12
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I'm Tracy Mumford.
Today's Wednesday, March 12th.
Here's what we're covering now.
Is this the first step on the.
Road to a total shutdown?
Yes, actually it is, because that was the president's mandate.
His directive to me clearly is to shut down the Department of Education.
The Trump administration's effort to radically upend the federal government has reached the Education Department.
The department announced yesterday that it's firing more than 1300 workers,
bringing staffing levels down to half of what they were when President Trump took office.
And in an interview on Fox News, Trump's new secretary of Education,
Linda McMahon, said a total elimination of the agency is in the works.