Former President Barack Obama’s secretary of education, Arne Duncan, said on Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to cut the Department of Education was “empty.”

“Trump promising to eliminate the Department of Education was never going to happen. That’s just another empty, broken promise,” Duncan told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “Whether his supporters hold him accountable for that, I don’t know.” 

During Trump’s campaign, the president-elect repeatedly promised to shut down the department and return education funding responsibilities to the states, according to a report from The Hill.

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