President Donald Trump kick-started efforts to dismantle the Education Department, but fully demolishing it would require a Herculean lift in the House and a miracle in the Senate.
Trump plans to sign an executive order on Thursday afternoon to proceed with gutting the Education Department. While his administration has already instituted mass layoffs and deep cuts, it can’t completely shutter the department without an act of Congress.
Republicans have long hammered the agency, formed in 1980, to push for a wholly state-led approach to education. However, passing a law to close it would require many swing-district lawmakers in the House ...