President Donald Trump’s administration dropped a hammer on Wednesday, setting a February 28 deadline for public schools to eliminate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs or forfeit federal funding, per a ZeroHedge report. The U.S. Department of Education’s ultimatum, issued via a February 14 letter from acting civil rights assistant Craig Trainor, demands schools axe DEI or face the axe themselves, per the February 28 story. For conservatives, this is a roaring win—Trump’s America First push is shredding Biden’s woke education mess.

Trainor laid out the stakes, blasting DEI as a relic of racial division.

“DEI has been a disaster for K-12,” he said. “Roughly 70 percent of American K-12 students are not proficient in reading or math.”

The letter, targeting state education heads, demands proof of compliance within 14 days, citing the Supreme Court’s 2023 affirmative action ban as legal muscle, per ZeroHedge. Schools face losing billions—10% of budgets, per the Epoch Times—if they cling to DEI, with no extensions past Friday, per Trainor’s memo.

This crackdown follows Trump’s Thursday border wins, slashing illegal crossings over 90%, per Border Patrol data, and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s Gitmo deportations, per her “Hannity” remarks.

“We have hundreds of thousands of criminals that were let illegally into this country,” Noem said. “That means they have criminal records. They’ve perpetuated crimes in this country.”

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Republicans see this as a lifeline. Biden’s tenure let deficits soar past $35 trillion, per Treasury data, while inflation—up 20% since 2021, per BLS—hammered families, and DEI bloated schools, per Parents Defending Education’s $1 billion tally since 2021. Trump’s January 20 “emergency price relief” memo, DOGE’s $55 billion cuts, and last week’s USAID purge, per Fox, signal the fix—cut waste, secure borders, and prioritize Americans.

Democrats cried foul, filing a Maryland lawsuit on February 25 calling it “vague” and a speech violation, per ZeroHedge, while clinging to DEI’s “equity” mirage. Too bad—conservatives see this as a reckoning for kids, not a loss. Legal battles loom, with over 70 suits targeting Trump’s moves—like a Thursday block on Education records—but Republicans stand firm. With Congress pushing reconciliation and FBI Director Kash Patel releasing Epstein files, the GOP’s ready to back Trump’s vision, ensuring schools focus on basics, as voters demanded in 2024.

Trainor’s letter flagged DEI’s $490 million in hiring and $343 million in programs as discriminatory, per ZeroHedge, with 22,805 schools still DEI-riddled, per PDE’s February 25 count. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ February DOGE task force and USDA Secretary Brooke L. Rollins’ SNAP crackdown show state-federal alignment. With DHS troops at the border and Noem’s raids, conservatives are ready to defend this purge, ensuring America’s classrooms ditch ideology for education.

This deadline is a seismic win for America, putting kids first and crushing woke waste under Trump’s iron resolve.