President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department.

Since his first term in the White House, President Donald Trump has set his sights on shuttering the Department of Education. Now, as the administration has cut hundreds of millions of dollars in its funding and fired more than half of its workforce,

The administration has already cut the agency’s workforce by nearly half. Totally shutting down the agency would require congressional action.