Department of Education
The Department of Education appears in Vol.113 从几千页智库文件中，勾勒特朗普2.0执政计划背后的人、机构、思想和脉络 as one of the clearest institutional targets shared by Project 2025 and the Republican Party 2024 platform. The episode says conservative dissatisfaction with education focuses on federal power, progressive cultural influence, teachers’ unions, higher education, and the desire to return authority to states and families.
In this source, the department is not just an education-policy agency. It is a symbol of Administrative State Dismantling because abolishing it would transfer programs, funding, and authority away from a federal institution that conservatives portray as captured by education associations and progressive ideology.
Can the Trump administration make college cheaper? adds a concrete higher-education finance policy under the department. With Linda McMahon as education secretary, the source says the department limits most graduate federal borrowing and also implements College Program Earnings Accountability, making the agency a price-pressure actor in the Federal Student Loan Caps debate rather than only an abolition target.
Connections
- Education Department Abolition — concept page for the policy proposal.
- Project 2025, Republican Party, and Donald Trump — source policy context.
- United States — national institutional setting.
- Linda McMahon, Federal Student Loan Caps, Grad PLUS Loans, and College Program Earnings Accountability - loan-policy branch added by Planet Money.