Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has cut dozens of contracts it dismissed as “woke” and wasteful. It gutted the Institute of Education Sciences, which gathers data on the nation’s academic progress, and the administration has fired or suspended scores of employees.

Eliminating the Department of Education could worsen racial inequities by cutting federal funding to poor schools.

The Constitution doesn’t give President Trump the power to shutter the department on his own because it was created through legislation.