A Senate committee advanced legislation designed to block key parts of the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. On Thursday, the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted 13–9 to move S. 5046 to the full Senate, after rejecting two Democratic amendments that would have prohibited transfers of any Education Department functions to other agencies and barred a newly announced transfer of the Office for Civil Rights to the Department of Justice. The bill would prevent four Education Department offices—including special education and rehabilitative services, elementary and secondary education, postsecondary education, and Indian education—from transferring most K-12 and special-education-related responsibilities to other Cabinet agencies under interagency agreements. Supporters framed the measure as protecting programs Congress specifically placed in the Education Department, while opponents signaled continued skepticism about how the changes are being implemented. The committee’s action followed reported Education Week findings that the administration has transferred 148 Education Department programs to six other agencies using congressional mechanisms that Congress had not approved. Passage to the full Senate would set up another high-stakes vote on whether Congress can halt the administrative reallocation of federally supported education functions.