Trump administration expands efforts to dismantle the Education Department
Source: Politico
02/23/2026 04:57 PM EST
The Trump administration is expanding its efforts to dismantle the Education Department by moving its oversight of school safety grants and foreign funding for universities to other agencies, the administration announced Monday.
The Department of Health and Human Services is slated to take over work related to school shootings and student mental health programs. The State Department will be tasked to help the Education Department manage how the federal government monitors the flow of billions of dollars in foreign gifts and contracts to higher education institutions.
“As we continue to break up the federal education bureaucracy and return education to the states, our new partnerships with the State Department and HHS represent a practical step toward greater efficiency, stronger coordination, and meaningful improvement,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.
Monday’s announcement, which arrived despite bipartisan congressional disapproval of Trump’s department breakup plan, was particularly notable because it now involves Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agency in a new role managing the government’s response to school violence across the country.
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