President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education and liberals are furious.

The anticipated executive order instructs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take “all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the States,” Fox News reported.

But the order also instructs her to continue the “uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.”

“NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) scores reveal a national crisis — our children are falling behind,” White House principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields, said to Fox News. “Over the past four years, Democrats have allowed millions of illegal minors into the country, straining school resources and diverting focus from American students.”

“Coupled with the rise of anti-American CRT and DEI indoctrination, this is harming our most vulnerable,” he said.” President Trump’s executive order to expand educational opportunities will empower parents, states, and communities to take control and improve outcomes for all students.”

McMahon, the former CEO and on screen character at World Wrestling Entertainment, sent a memo on March 3 in which she supported President Trump’s plan to dismantle a department that Republicans have said for decades is failing.

“The reality of our education system is stark, and the American people have elected President Trump to make significant changes in Washington,” she said in the memo. “Our job is to respect the will of the American people and the President they elected, who has tasked us with accomplishing the elimination of bureaucratic bloat here at the Department of Education — a momentous final mission — quickly and responsibly.”

The American Federation of Teachers issued a press release begging Congress to stop the executive order and “to make clear to the president that the federal government, in the face of this order, will not abdicate its responsibility to all children, students and working families, who deserve a future full of promise and possibility, not diminished dreams.”

“The Department of Education, and the laws it is supposed to execute, has one major purpose: to level the playing field and fill opportunity gaps to help every child in America succeed,” the organization’s President Randi Weingarten said on March 5. “Trying to abolish it — which, by the way, only Congress can do — sends a message that the president doesn’t care about opportunity for all kids. Maybe he cares about it for his own kids or his friends’ kids or his donors’ kids — but not all kids.”