"President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday in an attempt to shut down the Education Department." The New York Times reports.

... "'Claiming that eliminating half the department won’t affect its services — without any clear plan to redistribute the workload — is, at best, naïve and, at worst, deliberately misleading,' said Beth Maglione, the interim president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. 'It also raises serious concerns about how billions of dollars in federal student aid will continue to be disbursed to students without interruption.'"

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Publication Date: 3/20/2025