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March 11, 2025 – “Every part of the department will be impacted in some way but this is primarily a streamlining effort for internal facing rules, not external facing roles,” the official said, giving examples such as finding six separate strategic communication functions for different offices that will be consolidated. Advocates were already gearing up to fight to preserve the department through lawsuits and civic action when reports came in that Trump was going to sign an executive order directing the dismantling of the federal agency but then canceled the plans. “I expect that any actions to shutter the agency or to dismantle it will be challenged in the courts, and those challenges will prevail,” said Julie Margetta Morgan, a former deputy under secretary of Education during the Biden administration.
