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Jacob Phillips

Trump signs executive order to dismantle US Education Department

Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it in the East Room of the White House on Thursday - (REUTERS)

Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for the US Education Department to be dismantled, pushing ahead with a campaign promise to take the agency apart.

The US president has derided the Education Department as wasteful and polluted by liberal ideology.

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