Indeed, "school choice" and "market-driven solutions" also factor prominently into the political game plan for president-elect Donald Trump, who made it a major plank on the campaign trail, promising he would do away with the U.S. Department of Education and reduce the role of the federal government in education to "that of a statistics-gathering agency that disseminates information to the states.” "To the extent that federal taxpayer dollars are used to fund education programs, those funds should be blockgranted to states without strings, eliminating the need for many federal and state bureaucrats," the third chapter of Project 2025 states.