President Donald Trump has said he wants his new education chief, Linda McMahon, to “put herself out of a job” and close the Education Department.

President Donald Trump was sued by a group of mostly Democratic-led states over his alleged plan to effectively dismantle the US Education Department by slashing its workforce in half.

President Donald Trump, in the first month-and-a-half of his second term, has issued a flurry of executive orders, frozen or terminated federal spending in unprecedented ways, and empowered the world’s richest man to pursue a sweeping and fast-moving campaign of disruption and downsizing across the federal government.