USA Trump's Mass Layoff Plan at Ed Department Clears Legal Hurdle

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President Trump has gained approval from the Supreme Court to move forward with significant layoffs at the Department of Education. The decision, announced on Monday, reverses a lower court's ruling that had blocked the initiative, allowing Trump's plan, which would cut the department's workforce by half, to proceed.

 

In a strong dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticised the ruling, calling it "indefensible." She argued that the decision threatens the Constitution’s separation of powers, as dismantling the department should require Congressional approval. Joined by other liberal justices, she warned of the grave consequences of reducing the department's capacities.

 

Education Secretary Linda McMahon hailed the decision as a victory, asserting that the layoffs would promote efficiency and focus resources on students and teachers. She stated that the administration intends to fulfil statutory duties while reducing bureaucracy. However, critics argue that the cuts might undermine the department’s ability to manage federal aid and enforce civil rights laws.

 

A previous order from US District Judge Myong Joun had halted the layoffs, ruling in favour of a lawsuit by educators and states. This decision was upheld by an Appeals Court but overturned by the Supreme Court’s latest decision. The administration maintains that the changes are internal management decisions and not an outright dismantling of the department.

 

Justice Sotomayor voiced concerns that the layoffs could delay or deny educational opportunities and fail to protect students from discrimination and other violations. This ruling marks yet another pivotal moment in ongoing debates about federal versus state control over education policy.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from CNN 2025-07-15

 

 

[Tug]

What could possibly go wrong….we have the pro wrestling world matriarch in charge……just beggers belief…personally I think it’s a bid to privatize education and control the curriculum.

[Purdey]

If the department is simply a bureaucracy, then cutting back sounds like a simple move as the States take care of the actual education. However, no other department collects the data across the nation to evaluate how successful state education is. There has to be some bureaucracy. You can't have some schools teaching that, for instance, slavery wasn't a big thing in the South while other schools give a completely different history. 

[Tom100]

Great news. I support the TOTAL elimination of the US Federal Department of Education. After living in 5 US states and seeing education levels declining, I see no need at all for the Federal department. Plus, I am sure they are 99% Democrats.

 

Under the U.S. Constitution, providing a public high school education is the responsibility of states. This is based on the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which reserves powers not delegated to the federal government, nor prohibited to the states, to the states or the people. 

 

The Federal Department supports DEI hiring and mis-education and LGBTQ plus . 

[Tom100]

6 minutes ago, Purdey said:

no other department collects the data across the nation to evaluate how successful state education is. There has to be some bureaucracy. 

As a retired teacher, let me correct you, The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is paid by the DOE to summarize state level education results but its simple work can be replicated by anyone. I could do a better job working 10 hours a week.  AI can do this job in seconds. 

 

The Federal DOE NCES data is also extremely misleading regarding education -- it reports what percent of white/black students are officially graduated but ignores what percent of graduated students have met educational grade level objectives. This is political: Democrats prefer to indoctrinate & graduate rather than educate. 

 

 

[Gandtee]

As an onlooker, it would appear that Trump has the Supreme Court in his pocket.

[JonnyF]

Good news. The department of indoctrination, sorry I mean education, needs an overhaul. 

[Paul Henry]

Proof that the education system in the US is failing is just to look at the education standard of the President.

"78 and still illiterate"

[dinsdale]

I'd call it a mass cleansing rather than mass layoffs but it's CNN so the negative spin is mandatory.

[dinsdale]

8 minutes ago, Paul Henry said:

Proof that the education system in the US is failing is just to look at the education standard of the President.

"78 and still illiterate"

 He's been POTUS twice and is worth billions. Not bad for someone who according to you is illiterate.

[Will B Good]

 

 

Read in the US news today......55,000 teaching vacancies.......teachers are walking away from this debacle.

[BLMFem]

23 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Good news. The department of indoctrination, sorry I mean education, needs an overhaul. 

It does? Tell us, how did you become so deeply familiar with the US DOE?

[JonnyF]

5 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

It does? Tell us, how did you become so deeply familiar with the US DOE?

 

In the words of Frankie Four Fingers - Bubbe, I probably know a lot you don't. 

 

[Magictoad]

This obviously excellent news for the people of the USA. The education department is overrun with political extremists; usually ultra leftists and extreme liberals, the latter who believe and teach their children that some women have penisis and that men have wombs. So this a big congratulations to Trump for doing what Biden was too scared to do.

[Magictoad]

15 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

Read in the US news today......55,000 teaching vacancies.......teachers are walking away from this debacle.

Good riddance

[Magictoad]

1 hour ago, Purdey said:

If the department is simply a bureaucracy, then cutting back sounds like a simple move as the States take care of the actual education. However, no other department collects the data across the nation to evaluate how successful state education is. There has to be some bureaucracy. You can't have some schools teaching that, for instance, slavery wasn't a big thing in the South while other schools give a completely different history. 

A national curriculum?

[Will B Good]

2 minutes ago, Magictoad said:

This obviously excellent news for the people of the USA. The education department is overrun with political extremists; usually ultra leftists and extreme liberals, the latter who believe and teach their children that some women have penisis and that men have wombs. So this a big congratulations to Trump for doing what Biden was too scared to do.

 

Is there political influence? Yes, by design—the Secretary of Education is a political appointee.

 

Is there institutional or systemic bias? Not provably, but perceived bias is real depending on your political lens.

 

What’s the evidence? Largely anecdotal, interpretive, and rooted in policy priorities rather than direct discrimination or misconduct.

 

Teachers have a tough time at the best of times. I doubt many CBA to do anything other than try to meet the requirements of the curriculum. 

[Magictoad]

31 minutes ago, Paul Henry said:

Proof that the education system in the US is failing is just to look at the education standard of the President.

"78 and still illiterate"

How many people voted for him?

[BLMFem]

1 minute ago, Magictoad said:

Good riddance

So teachers quitting in droves is a good thing? So how would you replace them, or is education perhaps an overrated thing?

[BLMFem]

Just now, Magictoad said:

How many people voted for him?

Which might be another sign that the education system in the US is failing.

[Will B Good]

2 minutes ago, Magictoad said:

How many people voted for him?

 

1.2% more than for Harris

[black tabby12345]

He is so eager  to realize own slogan lol.

Making

As many as people

Go out of work

Asap

[JonnyF]

3 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

So teachers quitting in droves is a good thing?

 

If it's the type of hard left Liberal Trump hating types types teaching kids that women can have a penis? Yes.

 

And I suspect that's exactly the type that are leaving. 

 

Draining the swamp. 

[JonnyF]

4 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

Which might be another sign that the education system in the US is failing.

 

Every single person that voted for Trump did so under a Democrat government. 

[Magictoad]

Education is definitely political. In the UK over 90  infants were thrown out of nursery school for the crime of transphobia!

Gay rights is being taught in schools but Christians who complain because it's against their faith are visited by the police and charged with a hate crime.

Over 45 thousand people have been charged and some imprisoned for so called hate crimes.

[Magictoad]

6 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

Which might be another sign that the education system in the US is failing.

So it needed cleaning out then? So we agree?

[BLMFem]

2 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

If it's the type of hard left Liberal Trump hating types types teaching kids that women can have a penis? Yes.

 

And I suspect that's exactly the type that are leaving. 

 

Draining the swamp. 

I didn't ask you, buddy.

[Magictoad]

3 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

If it's the type of hard left Liberal Trump hating types types teaching kids that women can have a penis? Yes.

 

And I suspect that's exactly the type that are leaving. 

 

Draining the swamp. 

Exactly. Ner do wells.

[riclag]

1 hour ago, Tom100 said:

Great news. I support the TOTAL elimination of the US Federal Department of Education. After living in 5 US states and seeing education levels declining, I see no need at all for the Federal department. Plus, I am sure they are 99% Democrats.

 

Under the U.S. Constitution, providing a public high school education is the responsibility of states. This is based on the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which reserves powers not delegated to the federal government, nor prohibited to the states, to the states or the people. 

 

The Federal Department supports DEI hiring and mis-education and LGBTQ plus . 

Its original mission was started in 1979, by the party of liberal democrats !

They/ them  party members have transformed into Socialist & Cultural Marxist as you have described.

Federal tax revenue  has been  abused and sent to the department for them

to distribute to the leftist loons causes.

 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-department-of-education-contracts-left-activism

[Magictoad]

25 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

It does? Tell us, how did you become so deeply familiar with the US DOE?

Perhaps he went to school in America; that's a start and then went to high school and on to University.  You're bound to learn something about the state of education; don't ya think?