Trump Plans Executive Action & Guantanamo Flights Begin | Afternoon Update | 2.4.25
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I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, February 4th, and this is your Morning Wire Afternoon Update.
Two of President Trump's most controversial cabinet picks are moving closer to being confirmed. Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has more.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has passed the Senate Finance Committee hurdle by a narrow 14-13 party-line vote. He now heads to a floor vote in his bid to head up the Department of Health and Human Services. Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard has made it through the Senate Intelligence Committee in her nomination for Director of National Intelligence, despite having a tough confirmation hearing. She made it through with a narrow 9-8 party line vote. Ahead of the vote, Gabbard secured critical GOP support from Senators Collins, Lankford, and Young, who had been on the fence. During her hearing, she defended her record, pledging stronger oversight on intelligence leaks. We'll have more on the confirmations tomorrow morning.
President Trump is considering using his executive powers to gut the Department of Education. He then plans to push Congress to abolish the agency entirely. Daily Wire deputy managing editor Tim Rice has the details.
The order would slash most of the department's functions, reassign some programs to other federal agencies, and retain certain functions required by law. The move aligns with Trump's campaign promise to return control of education to the states and stop the agency from promoting what he calls the indoctrination of American youth. The plan may be delayed until after Education Secretary-designate Linda McMahon's Senate confirmation, as officials worry it could impact her confirmation. If implemented, the order would mark one of the most significant federal education rollbacks in U.S. history. As Erica Donalds of the America First Policy Institute told News Nation, this order gives power back to parents.
We know that the Department of Education at the federal level has certainly failed us. The NAEP scores continue to show us that, as last week we saw just a third of our eighth graders in America are reading and doing math proficiently on grade level. What President Trump wants to do and what he got elected to do was put the power and ultimately the funding in the hands of parents to decide the best education environment for their children. And we think that is what's going to help children thrive academically. The Daily Wire has learned that the president is also set to sign an executive order related to men competing in women's sports. Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olihan has the scoop.
We first reported that Trump will sign the order tomorrow surrounded by advocates for women's sports and opponents of gender ideology. It's currently unclear what exactly the bill will cover as far as age ranges and grades, but the move comes amid growing national debate fueled by high profile cases like that of Riley Gaines, who competed against a male athlete who went by Leah Thomas. This issue was a key concern for American parents, especially suburban Americans. women during the 2024 election and the trump campaign leaned into the topic aggressively citing fairness and safety in women's spaces the signing coincides with national girls and women in sports day emphasizing the administration's focus on protecting female athletic opportunities morning wire also spoke to congressman august fluger here's what he told us
This is common sense. This is fairness. It is being transparent. It's helping not Republican women, not Democrat women. It's helping all women. It's helping our society come to grips with it's okay to be a male, but you need to play male sports. It's okay to be a woman. You need to play women's sports.
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