U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would like to close the U.S. Department of Education using an executive order but acknowledged he would need buy-ins from Congress and teachers' unions to fulfill his campaign pledge to do so.

Two sources told NBC News that the White House is preparing an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education. NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez reports on the order that could come in February, following up on a promise President Donald Trump made during his campaign.

The president is expected to sign the executive order Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter.

U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday effectively banning transgender girls and women from participating in female sports events in schools and colleges, a White House official said.

President Donald Trump is signing an executive order designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in women’s or girls' sporting events

Just 10 days into his first term in office, Trump signed the order installing the aforementioned 2-for-1 deregulatory benchmark, but former President Joe Biden rescinded that order on his first day in office. Trump officials say the president went on to leave office removing five regulations for each one added.

The move cast uncertainty on the leadership role of the United States in the global body. The president also withdrew from the U.N.’s Human Rights Council and stopped funding UNRWA.

President Trump signed an executive order aimed at withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council and UNRWA and for broader review of U.S. funding for the international organization.

The White House said on Monday it has noticed that Mexico is "serious" about President Donald Trump's executive order on tariffs, but Canada has "misunderstood" it to be a trade war between the neighboring countries.