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WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 18: U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order that he signed … [+]<\/span> during a meeting of the National Space Council at the East Room of the White House June 18, 2018 in Washington, DC. President Trump signed an executive order to establish the Space Force, an independent and co-equal military branch, as the sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Confirmation Of Trump\u2019s Imminent Action To Dismantle Education Department<\/h2>\n

A leaked internal memo has confirmed that President Donald Trump intends to dismantle the Education Department via executive order imminently. As of this writing, Federal News Network<\/em> first reported<\/a> the draft, revealing that “the department is preparing to notify its employees that President Donald Trump will sign an executive order, entitled, ‘Eliminating the Department of Education.\u2019\u201d The draft memo divulges that Education Department staff are actively preparing for the agency\u2019s dismantling, even going so far as to plan to reassign its functions to other federal bodies ahead of Trump\u2019s order to eliminate the department\u200b. According to the memo, Trump\u2019s long-promised goal of shutting down the Education Department will move forward. The memo\u2019s disclosure marks the most concrete evidence that the administration is expediting efforts to shut down the agency. <\/p>\n

So far, Federal News Network<\/em> is the only news outlet reporting on the memo, which may not be unusual given that it obtained it. The news agency has received high marks for credibility and factual reporting as well as a \u201cleast biased\u201d designation from MediaBiasFactCheck<\/em>, a website widely used to assess political bias and factuality of a source. The draft memo is also corroborated by coverage from early February in which many news outlets, including CNN<\/em>, reported<\/a> that Trump was drafting this executive order. The leaked memo also follows the Senate\u2019s confirmation of Education Secretary Linda McMahon and her immediate speech to the Education Department about its \u201cfinal mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

What The Memo Says About The Education Department<\/h2>\n

The unsigned draft memo states that Trump\u2019s upcoming executive order gives Education Department employees a “clear and final mission.” Here are some of the memo\u2019s key lines, from FNN\u2019s <\/em>reporting. <\/em><\/p>\n