Education Dept breakup: What if Trump sells America’s student loans?

The scene in Washington this week has the faintly theatrical logic of a building being demolished room by room while the lights are still on. On November 18, 2025, the Trump administration announced six inter-agency agreements that will move large parts of the U.S. Department of Education’s grant and programme machinery to other departments — Labour for much of K-12 and postsecondary policy, Interior for Indian Education, State for foreign-language programmes, and HHS for specific childcare and medical-education initiatives. The White House calls it a de-bureaucratisation exercise; critics call it a work-around for the fact that Congress has not voted to abolish the department. Either way, the operation is now in motion. Yet the department still holds the one asset that makes a clean