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A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department.
The order also blocks the transfer of department functions to other agencies as well as an executive order aimed at dismantling the agency.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs. The administration said it would challenge the ruling.