Closing the department requires an act of Congress, but Trump could make it nearly impossible for remaining employees to carry out their work, much like at USAID.

President Donald Trump will likely sign an executive order Thursday to dismantle the Department of Education, according to multiple reports, after earlier moves by Trump to overhaul the department and calls to shutter the agency—though eliminating the department will likely require congressional approval.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to begin dismantling the US Department of Education, seeking to fulfill decades of conservative ambition to get rid of the agency, but raising new questions for the country’s millions of public schools,