Shortly after she was sworn in, I invited Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to my office.
I looked her dead in the eye and asked, “Now, I just want to be clear, do you think you can shut down the Department of Education?”
She looked straight back at me and said, “No, I don’t have the legal authority to do that.”
But here we are.
It’s official: Donald Trump and Secretary McMahon are dismantling the Department of Education one piece at a time. This is, in Secretary McMahon’s words, the department’s “final mission.”
