evidence: Aside from eliminating the department, the project also proposes scrapping the Biden administration’s Title IX revision, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. It also would let states opt out of federal education programs and calls for passing a federal parents’ bill of rights similar to ones passed in some Republican-led state legislatures. Republicans, including Trump, have pledged to close the department, which gained its status in 1979 within Democratic President Jimmy Carter’s presidential Cabinet. In one of his Agenda 47 policy videos, Trump promised to close the department and "to send all education work and needs back to the states." Eliminating the department would have to go through Congress. What Project 2025, Trump would do on overtime pay In the graphic, the Harris campaign says Project 2025 allows "employers to stop paying workers for overtime work." The plan doesn’t call for banning overtime wages. It recommends changes to some Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, regulations and to overtime rules. Some changes, if enacted, could result in some people losing overtime protections, experts told us.