by The National News Desk

Thu, March 6th 2025 at 10:18 AM

Updated Thu, March 6th 2025 at 10:19 AM

FILE – Linda McMahon speaks during a news conference with President Donald Trump in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., March 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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President Donald Trump is expected this week to sign an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to dissolve the Department of Education, sources confirmed to ABC News.

A draft of the executive order calls on McMahon to close the department by taking all the necessary steps “permitted by law,” the sources said.