Trump Dismantles Ed Dept, RFK Goes After Food Chemicals, American Released: AM Update 3/21
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What are the headlines in the AM Update for March 21st, 2025?
Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's March 21st, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
I will sign an executive order to begin eliminating the Federal Department of Education once and for all.
President Trump announcing an executive order aimed at shuttering the Department of Education.
Any new chemical that they want to add to our food is generally recognized as safe and gets no review.
RFKJ announcing a sweeping review of industry food standards aimed at ridding the food supply of potentially harmful ingredients. A Georgetown researcher on a student visa arrested by Homeland Security. The reporting largely sympathetic to the student, glossing over a key detail about his personal life. An American citizen held captive by the Taliban released what the Taliban was offered in return. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update. The IRS is the largest collection agency in the world. And with April 15th fast approaching, it's more aggressive than ever. If you owe back taxes or have unfiled returns, waiting is not an option. April 15th could mark another tax year that has passed you by. So the smart move is to get ahead of it now. But listen, never contact the IRS alone. Instead, you could let the experts at Tax Network USA handle it for you. Why? Well, not all tax resolution companies are the same.
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What actions is President Trump taking regarding the Department of Education?
Today we take a very historic action that was 45 years in the making. In a few moments, I will sign an executive order to begin eliminating the Federal Department of Education once and for all. My administration will take all lawful steps to shut down the department. We're going to shut it down and shut it down as quickly as possible. It's doing us no good.
Completely abolishing the Department of Ed will require an act of Congress not likely to happen under the current slim Republican majorities. The order will instead, quote, begin to eliminate the department. Last week, Education Secretary Linda McMahon announcing a reduction in workforce amounting to half of the department's employees. Prior to the new order, the DOE was responsible for developing federal education guidelines and initiatives like Common Core, enforcing civil rights compliance in schools, and administering federal student aid. Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt describing to reporters Thursday morning what tasks will remain under the department.
Pell grants and student loans will still be run out of the department in Washington, D.C., but the great responsibility of educating our nation's students will return to the states. The Department of Education plays a critical role in enforcing civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination. Who's going to do that now? Any critical functions of the department such as that will remain, but again, we're greatly reducing the scale and the size of this department.
President Trump saying Pell Grants, a common form of undergraduate aid and Title I funding allocated toward children with disabilities, will be preserved in full and eventually handed over to other agencies. The details of how exactly the Trump administration plans to hand education back to the states remain unclear. Randy Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and critic of the move, outlining her fears to left-wing journalist Molly Jong Fast.
They're saying, oh, don't worry. Let's block grant it. So we'll give it to a state education department. So and then let the state education department decide what to do. So we know, for example, what Texas would do.
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