Rachel Maddow looks at the many ways Americans are obstructing Donald Trump's goal of dismantling the Department of Education, from street protests to lawsuits to acts of defiance by congressional Democrats,

N.H., told Linda McMahon on Thursday that her confirmation hearing felt “surreal,” given the fact that President Donald Trump intends to eliminate the Department of Education, which he has tapped McMahon to head.

Months after she was announced to be President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Education, Linda McMahon is on the hot seat in Capitol Hill Thursday as she

President Donald Trump has advocated for the elimination of the federal Department of Education and has begun taking steps to do so at the start of his second term. According to the Washington Post, Trump is “preparing for executive action later this month that will fulfill Trump’s campaign pledge to defund the department.

The Department of Education gave schools and universities two weeks to end diversity initiatives or risk losing federal funding.

Executive orders from President Donald Trump have threatened to withhold federal funding from schools that are not “patriotic.”

As President Donald Trump has threatened to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education, the potential ramifications have left education officials in Southern California concerned about funding. Trump,

Another day, another Donald Trump decision for The View cohosts to dissect. On Thursday’s (February 13) edition, it was his stated plans to eliminate the Department of Education that had the panelists fired up as the first “Hot Topic.

A computer-generated video of U.S. President Donald Trump licking tech billionaire Elon Musk's toes briefly played on video screens at the office of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as staff returned to work on Monday.

The Education Department has long been a target of conservatives. Over many years, presidential candidates, think tank analysts and Republican lawmakers have called for its elimination. All that came to naught. Trump promised to shut it down during his campaign and has tasked Elon Musk, who leads the U.S. DOGE Service, to start cutting.

President Donald Trump would like the U.S. Department of Education closed "immediately," he told reporters while in the Oval Office on Wednesday.