It’s Friday, Wake Up Right fam! President Trump followed through with a campaign promise to abolish the Department of Education. But don’t let the kids get too excited. Class is not canceled.

Today, we’ll dive into what this means for you — PLUS, we begin diving into the JFK files.

• 📉 Pete Hegseth announced $580M in cuts to DOD contracts/grants

• 🤣 22% have a favorable view of Chuck Schumer

• 🇮🇪 UFC legend Connor McGregor announces run for Irish prez

• 📊 Trump approval avg: 47.9% approve, 48.8% disapprove

^{Sources: TK, Economist, The Hill, RCP}

We don’t need no education

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to begin dismantling the Department of Education (DOE) — aiming to return control of education to states.

The details: The order directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “facilitate the closure” of the federal agency while ensuring the continued delivery of key services like Pell Grants, Title I funding, and special education resources.

• Trump, during a signing ceremony yesterday, said: “We’re going to be returning education… back to the states where it belongs.”

The thesis statement: The Trump administration believes individual states are “best positioned to administer effective programs and services that benefit their own unique populations and needs.”

Time out: It’s important to remember that the DOE is not tasked with educating American students. It’s there to create policies, enforce laws, and provide federal funding to states.

Failing grades: According to a White House memo, per-pupil spending has increased by 245% since 1979, but "there has been virtually no measurable improvement in student achievement." It added:

• 6 in 10 fourth and eighth graders are not proficient in math.

• 7 in 10 fourth and eighth graders are not proficient in reading.

The Arithmetic: The DOE’s budget in fiscal year 2024 was $268 billion. This funds programs like:

• Federal Student Aid ($120 billion)

• Title I low-income schools ($18 billion)

• Special ed & students with disabilities ($15 billion)

• Maintaining offices and 2,183 staff members. ($426.9 million)

No DEI: As the federal government transitions toward reallocating funds to the states, it will require states to ensure these funds are not associated with 'illegal discrimination' related to DEI or gender ideology initiatives.

Cutting waste: The Department has already eliminated nearly half its staff and over $600M in grants tied to progressive training programs.

Real talk from G: We pay taxes to the federal government. They allocate some of those taxes to the DOE, which skims some off the top for woke programs and to pay 2,000 bureaucrats, and THEN sends it back to the states. It’s a money laundering scheme.

The last word goes to the White House, which said: “Why would we keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result?”

[Source: Breitbart]

The JFK Files

The Trump administration released tens of thousands of pages of previously withheld government documents on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, providing new details on the historic event.

Back up: Kennedy was assassinated when his motorcade drove through Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.

The details: The U.S. National Archives released more than 63,000 pages of previously classified files to the public in accordance with an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in January. Here are some of the high-profile takeaways.

• One document reveals how Gary Underhill, who worked for the CIA, was found dead shortly after telling friends that "a small clique within the CIA" was responsible for the assassination.

• The CIA closely monitored Oswald’s travels to Mexico City, where he sought a visa to return to the Soviet Union just two months before JFK’s death.

• One document links a CIA-affiliated arms dealer to the sporting goods store where Oswald allegedly purchased his rifle.

• Oswald’s phone calls were intercepted, and CIA officials urged Washington to keep those wiretaps secret even decades later.

• A memo from historian and JFK aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. warned the president about the CIA’s influence over foreign policy, calling it a “state within a state.”

• The CIA bugged a meeting Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was likely to attend with two Cuban exiles. CIA bugging the AG...

Zoom out: Some of these documents had been previously released — but with heavy redactions. This batch was unredacted.

Real talk from G: There are more excerpts from the files that have made their rounds on social media but require more diligence from yours truly to verify. If they pan out, I’ll be sure to share them with you all.

The last word goes to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who wrote on X: "President Trump is ushering in a new era of maximum transparency… Promises made, promises kept.”

[Source: WSJ, Daily Caller]

⚧️ A federal judge ordered two transgender biological males back into federal women's prisons. They had previously been moved to men's prisons under President Trump's executive order. Read more.

💾 Chipmaker Nvidia plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the U.S. supply chain over the next four years. Read more.

🔥 AG Pam Bondi announced charges against individuals participating in what she described as “domestic terrorism against Tesla properties.” Read more.

📖 An anti-Trump FBI agent was arrested and charged for sharing classified FBI documents to write a book. Read more.

🗳️ New York's highest court ruled that Democrats’ efforts to let illegal aliens vote in local elections were unconstitutional. Read more.

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🎥 Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot can breakdance, cartwheel, and more. Watch.

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