Maybe Education Isn’t The Answer To All Problems

Well, no, probably not:

Trump alone can't shutter the U.S. Department of Education, experts say. Closing the agency would require an act of Congress. Still, Trump could move some of the department's functions to other agencies. He said his administration was looking to task the Treasury Department, Commerce Department or the Small Business Administration with federal student loan management.

I’m not sure he can:

There is established in the Department a Performance-Based Organization (hereafter referred to as the “PBO”) which shall be a discrete management unit responsible for managing the administrative and oversight functions supporting the programs authorized under subchapter IV of this chapter, as specified in subsection (b).

"The Department” is the DOE.  In other provisions of the Code, the Secretary of Education is given authority over student loans. There is no provision in the law that allows that authority to be transferred to the Secretary of the Treasury, or to anyone else, by the SOE, or anyone else.

You see, what Congress didn’t say is: “We’re establishing a Department of Education, but how it works and what it does is completely up to the whims of the sitting President.”

May you live in interesting times.