Education department plans to cut half its workforce as Trump vows to wind agency down – US politics live

12/03/2025 09:59 The Guardian

Secretary of education Linda McMahon says move is part of president’s mission to dismantle departmentThe Kremlin said on Wednesday it needed to be briefed by the United States on the outcome of US-Ukrainian talks in Saudi Arabia before it would comment on whether a proposed ceasefire was acceptable to Russia.According to Reuters, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also told reporters he did not rule out the possibility of a phone call between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, which he said could be organised very quickly if needed.Presidents Trump and Musk and their billionaire buddies are so detached from how Americans live that they cannot see how ending public education and canceling these contracts kills the American Dream … If kids from working-class families do not have access to schools, how can they build a future?” Continue reading...

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