President Donald Trump will not be axing the Department of Education today. He can't.
It's important we get that fact cleared up first because both sky-is-falling sorts on the left and hail God-Emperor Trump types on the right have a vested interest in acting like an upcoming executive order—expected today—means curtains for the Department of Education.
What Trump's executive order reportedly will do is tell Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to take "all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the States," while ensuring "uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely."
