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How Trump plans to dismantle the Education Department after Supreme Court ruling
WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Linda McMahon is expected to move quickly now that the Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue unwinding her department. The justices on Monday paused a lower court order that had halted nearly 1,400 layoffs and had called into question the legality of President Donald Trump's plan to outsource the department's operations to other agencies. Now, Donald Trump and McMahon are free to execute the layoffs and break up the department's work among other federal agencies. Trump had campaigned on closing the department, and McMahon has said the department has one 'final mission' to turn over its power to the states. 'The Federal Government has been running our Education System into the ground, but we are going to turn it all around by giving the Power back to the PEOPLE,' Trump said late Monday in a post on Truth Social. 'Thank you to the United States Supreme Court!' Department lawyers have already previewed McMahon's next steps in court filings. What happens with student loans, civil rights cases Trump and McMahon have acknowledged only Congress has authority to close the Education Department fully, but both have suggested its core functions could be parceled out to different federal agencies. Among the most important decisions is where to put management of federal student loans, a $1.6 trillion portfolio affecting nearly 43 million borrowers. Trump in March suggested the Small Business Administration would take on federal student loans, but a June court filing indicated the Treasury Department is expected to take over the work. The Education Department said it had been negotiating a contract with Treasury but paused discussions when the court intervened. That work is now expected to proceed in coming days. Under a separate arrangement, nine Education Department workers already have been detailed to Treasury, according to a court filing. The department had also recently struck a deal to outsource the management of several grant programs for workforce training and adult education to the Department of Labor. The Education Department agreed to send $2.6 billion to Labor to oversee grants, which are distributed to states to be passed down to schools and colleges. Combining workforce training programs at Education and Labor would 'provide a coordinated federal education and workforce system,' according to the agreement. Additional agreements are expected to follow with other agencies. At her Senate confirmation hearing, McMahon suggested that enforcement of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act could be handled by the Department of Health and Human Services. Civil rights work could be managed by the Justice Department, she said. Democracy Forward, which represents plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said it will pursue 'every legal option' to fight for children. The group's federal court case is proceeding, but the Supreme Court's emergency decision means the Education Department is allowed to downsize in the meantime. 'No court in the nation — not even the Supreme Court — has found that what the administration is doing is lawful,' said Skye Perryman, president and CEO of the group, in a statement. Laying off staff Trump campaigned on a promise to close the agency, and in March ordered it to be wound down 'to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.' McMahon had already started a dramatic downsizing, laying off about 1,400 workers. Education Department employees targeted by the layoffs have been on paid leave since March, according to a union that represents some of the agency's staff. The lower court order had prevented the department from fully terminating them, though none had been allowed to return to work, according to the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252. Without the lower court order, the workers would have been terminated in early June. The absence of those staffers already had caused problems in the office that handles student loans, said Melanie Storey, president and CEO of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. College financial aid staffers reported delays and breakdowns in federal systems — such as an hours-long outage on the day after departmental layoffs. Communication with the Education Department eroded, Storey said. 'It is concerning that the Court is allowing the Trump administration to continue with its planned reduction in force, given what we know about the early impact of those cuts on delivering much-needed financial assistance to students seeking a postsecondary education,' Storey said. Gutting the Education Department will hinder the government's ability to enforce civil rights laws, especially for girls, students with disabilities, LGBTQ+ students and students of color, said Gaylynn Burroughs, vice president at the National Women's Law Center. Laid-off staff in the Office of Civil Rights were handling thousands of cases. 'Without enough staff and resources, students will face more barriers to educational opportunity and have fewer places to turn to when their rights are violated,' Burroughs said in a statement. 'This is part of a coordinated plan by the Trump administration to dismantle the federal government and roll back hard-won civil rights protections.' ___ AP education writers Annie Ma and Cheyanne Mumphrey contributed reporting. ___ The Associated Press' education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. 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Would Europe Actually Retaliate Against Trump's Tariffs?
European Union officials have spent the past week finalizing a plan to hit back at the United States in response to President Trump's tariffs, laying the groundwork to hit more than $100 billion worth of American imports with levies if negotiations on a new trade deal fail. But a question looms over that effort. 'If it comes to it, will they?' asked Frances Burwell, a fellow at the Atlantic Council's Europe Center, a research organization. Officials from the 27-nation bloc have spent months preparing to retaliate, only to hold off in favor of more talks. In April, E.U. policymakers approved a plan to impose tariffs on 21 billion euros (nearly $25 billion) of American goods. But they abruptly suspended them in a show of good will when Mr. Trump pivoted at the last minute and paused some painful across-the-board tariffs. The goal was to negotiate. No deal was forthcoming. Instead, Mr. Trump said on social media last week that he planned to impose 30 percent tariffs on the bloc starting on Aug. 1. After that announcement, E.U. officials chose to again delay that first batch of retaliatory tariffs — which had been suspended only through July 14 — to allow room for more talks. But they have also redoubled their vow to respond forcefully if necessary. E.U. trade officials are now finishing up a second list of tariffs that would target an even longer list of American goods, one that amounts to €72 billion ($84 billion) of goods that includes Boeing airplanes and Kentucky bourbon. The final version was sent to member states on Monday, said diplomats who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an internal process. National representatives have not yet voted on the list. That push to be prepared to retaliate is rooted in an uncomfortable reality. The European Union would prefer to come up with a negotiated solution and avoid a painful and protracted trade war, but the talks could still fail. Strength, many politicians and ministers pointed out, seems to be the only negotiating language that Mr. Trump understands. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
