Trump to sign executive order to abolish the Department of Education

Trump will need approval from Congress to fully nix the agency

Diana Stancy, Louis Casiano, Patrick Ward, Edward Lawrence / Fox News

 

President Donald Trump is moving forward with plans to abolish the Department of Education.

Trump is expected to sign an executive order following through on a campaign promise to disband the department, claiming on the campaign trail that the department was full of "radicals, zealots and Marxists."

A White House fact sheet states that the move will "turn over education to families instead of bureaucracies. Trump and proponents of eliminating the department have long said the agency has failed American students. 

"NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) scores reveal a national crisis — our children are falling behind," Harrison Fields, the White House principal deputy press secretary, told Fox News. "Over the past four years, Democrats have allowed millions of illegal minors into the country, straining school resources and diverting focus from American students." Read more and see videos here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-sign-executive-order-abolish-department-education

The Usual Suspects Lamented Israel's Operation Against Hamas, While an American Is Still Held Hostage

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Earlier this week, Israel conducted quite the operation against Hamas. Despite warnings from Israel and President Donald Trump, Hamas terrorists are still holding hostages in captivity, as they've been doing for over 500 days. Among those still being held hostage is Edan Alexander, an American citizen. Hamas could have returned the hostages to end the hostilities, yet the terrorists refused, and they, along with those in the mainstream media who repeat their propaganda statistics, are lamenting the resulting attack.

It's not just the media, though, like the Associated Press, an outlet which has spewed pro-Hamas narratives plenty of times before, and which even had reporters embedded with the terrorists for the October 7 attack. Members of Congress here at home have even further become what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to in his address before a joint session of Congress last July as "useful idiots."

On Tuesday morning, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) put out a quoted repost of the AP. Both the outlet and the congresswoman referenced...Read more and seee Xs here.