President Donald Trump has made the Department of Education the next target of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) a he looks to eliminate the department.

After being asked by a reporter on how quickly he would like to see the Department of Education closed he said “immediately” and explained his reasons during a press conference.

“Look, the Department of Education is a big con job. We’re ranked- so they rank the top 40 countries in the world. We’re ranked number 40th, but we’re ranked number one in one department, costs per pupil,” the president said.

“So we spend more per pupil than any other country in the world, but we’re ranked number 40. We’ve been between 38 and 40. The last time I looked, it was 38, and then I looked two days ago, it came out the new list. It came out at number 40. So we’re ranked 40. Norway, Denmark, Sweden, I hate to say it, China, as big as it is, it’s ranked in the top five, and that’s our- that’s a primary competitor,” he said.

“We’re ranked number 40. So if we’re ranked number 40, that means something’s really wrong, right? And I say send it back to Iowa, to Idaho, to Colorado. Send it back to places that- and a lot of Indiana. You have a great new governor. You have a great senator that Jim Banks just got elected,” the president said.

“You got great people. I’ll tell you what, Indiana is going to be fantastic. We probably have 35, maybe 37 states that will do as well as Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden. They’ll be just as good. Then you have- then you have the ones that we all know about. It’ll be the same story, but you know what?” President Trump said.

“Even they will be good because you look at New York, you give it to Westchester County, you give it to Long Island, you give it to Nassau County, you give it to Suffolk County. Same thing you go out to- and you give it to upstate New York, so you’d have four or five sections. You give it to Manhattan. Manhattan’s a little bit tougher for some reason. I don’t know why it would be tougher, but it is. You give to California,” he said.