<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s desire to dismantle the Department of Education could be fully realized with legislation being put together by a top Republican senator.</p>
<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) announced plans to introduce a bill shortly after Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-signs-order-dismantling-department-of-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an executive order on Thursday to &#8220;facilitate&#8221; the closure of a federal agency the current administration feels has not adequately helped student achievement and &#8220;return education authority&#8221; to the states and local communities.</p>
<p>&#8220;I agree with President Trump that the Department of Education has failed its mission,&#8221; Cassidy said in a statement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-signs-order-dismantling-department-of-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">given</a> to The Daily Wire. &#8220;Since the Department can only be shut down with Congressional approval, I will support the President’s goals by submitting legislation to accomplish this as soon as possible.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump&#8217;s second-term administration has already taken steps toward paring back the Cabinet-level agency, however, because Congress passed a bill to create the Department of Education that was signed by then-President Jimmy Carter in 1979, another one is needed in order to fully take it apart.</p>
<p>Cassidy is the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, meaning whatever bill he puts forth will have positive momentum within the GOP-led Senate.</p>
<p>Still, Cassidy&#8217;s legislation faces the prospect of a filibuster. A three-fifths majority — or 60 votes — would be needed to overcome that threshold. As Republicans only have a slim majority in the Senate, they would need a handful of Democrats or independents to support moving forward with the bill — an unlikely outcome.</p>
<p>The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, <a href="https://x.com/Heritage/status/1899821520655896837" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a video earlier this month suggesting possible workarounds, such as using the budget reconciliation process that requires only a simple majority, moving to repeal the agency&#8217;s mandatory programs, or acting on recision requests from the president.</p>
<p>On the House side, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has already introduced a bill for this session of Congress that simply declares the Department of Education &#8220;shall terminate on December 31, 2026.&#8221; That bill, which has 32 co-sponsors, has so far been <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/899/all-actions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> to the House Committee on Education and Workforce for consideration.</p>
<p>Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) <a href="https://x.com/RepOgles/status/1902856097385587093" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on X that he was &#8220;drafting the Make Education Great Again Act to codify [Trump&#8217;s] historic executive action gutting the woke and wasteful Department of Education. It’s time for Congress to return education to the states and defend the rights of parents across our nation.&#8221;</p>

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