Trump repeatedly talked about his desire to close the Education Department, which he alleged “indoctrinate(s) America’s youth with all sorts of things," on the campaign trail.

As part of President Donald Trump's effort to purge the federal government, Elon Musk has begun looking at the Department of Education to cut. To do it, he fed personally identifiable information into an AI program to have the computer decide where cuts should be made,

Elon Musk’s team of Stasi programmers at DOGE are feeding highly sensitive data from the Department of Education through artificial intelligence tools, according to an extremely predictable, yet still shocking, report from the Washington Post. The plan, according to the Post, is for DOGE to do the same thing at every federal agency.