Trump hails supreme court decision to let him dismantle education department – US politics live

<p>President says ‘America’s students to be best, brightest and most highly educated in world’ following ruling</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/14/supreme-court-trump-education-department">US supreme court allows Trump to resume gutting education department</a></p></li></ul><p><strong>A group of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans">Republican</a> lawmakers has complained that smoke from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/canada">Canadian</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/wildfires">wildfires</a> is ruining summer for Americans, just days after voting for a major bill that will cause more of the planet-heating pollution that is worsening wildfires.</strong></p><p>In a <a href="https://tiffany.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/tiffany.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/canadian_wildfire_smoke_letter.pdf">letter</a> sent to Canada’s ambassador to the US, six Republican members of Congress wrote that wildfire smoke from Canada has been an issue for several years and recently their voters “have had to deal with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/30/canada-wildfires-air-quality">suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke</a> filling the air to begin the summer”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jul/15/donald-trump-supreme-court-education-epstein-files-mike-waltz-us-politics-live-news-updates">Continue reading...</a>