President Trump came into office vowing to abolish the department, despite saying he didn't know anything about Project 2025 and didn't have anything to do with it. He decided he was going to make implementing the Project 2025 plan to abolish the Department of Education one of his top goals. He appointed a billionaire former wrestling CEO with virtually no experience in education to run the department, someone who said that her goal as secretary would be to put herself out of a job. (00:22–00:32)
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Asserts that President Trump made implementing Project 2025 to abolish the Department of Education a top goal.
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