The Trump administration’s decimation of the Department of Education is back underway. After U.S. District Judge Myong Joun halted Trump’s plan to dismantle the department by reinstating the 1,400 staff members who were fired en masse, the Supreme Court has now paused that ruling, allowing Linda McMahon to resume the administration’s earlier plan.
Although Trump explicitly ran on a campaign promise to decimate the Education Department, his legal defense claims that this is not what inspired the mass firings. According to CNN, the Trump administration has termed these firings simply “internal management decisions.”
