KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Chips Away at the Dept. of Education, but Will It Be Enough? “The president and Secretary McMahon have do deal with bureaucratic realities while I’m dreaming of them taking a blowtorch to the whole department. Rather than deliver a knockout punch, they’ve been trying to weaken the Dept. of Education (ED) via a series of body blows in the form of offloading its duties elsewhere.”