25 Mar 2025

US correspondent Ximena Bustillo

From Nine To Noon, 9:50 am on 25 March 2025
US President Donald Trump holds an executive order after signing it alongside US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon (R) during an education event in the East Room of the White house in Washington, DC, March 20, 2025. President Donald Trump signed an order aimed at shutting down the Department of Education, a decades-long goal on the US right that objects to federal involvement in school systems run by individual states. By law, the Education Department -- created in 1979 -- cannot be shuttered without the approval of Congress, and Republicans do not have the votes to push that through. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

 US President Donald Trump holds an executive order after signing it alongside US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. Photo: AFP / Roberto Schmidt

The Department of Homeland Security is cutting back its civil rights and oversight offices after it revoked parole status from half a million people.

The Education Department has become another target of Government cuts while farmers voice fears about a possible trade war. Ximena Bustillo NPR politics reporter based in Washington