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Podcast: Rising from the Ashes
Episode: Will Trump actually kill off the U.S. Department of Education?
Description: 66 days to go until Donald Trump officially re-takes the reigns of power at the White House ... thank you for counting down this complicated transition period with us.
On today's Countdown 2024: The promises from president-elect Trump and several other Republicans to kill off the U.S. Department of Education came early and often during the campaign ... so now that he's back in charge, can he actually shut down a sprawling federal agency overseeing the public educations of some 50-million American kids ... and WOULD he actually do that? We'll hear from a former Secretary of Education. And at the end of today's...