WATCH: Trump says new guidance on school prayer is expected soon, praises DC’s Mayor Bowser

President Donald Trump says new guidance on school prayer is expected soon.

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The president made the announcement Monday during remarks at a meeting of the White House Religious Liberty Commission. He said the Education Department will issue new guidance “protecting the right to prayer in our public schools.”

Public schools have been barred from leading students in classroom prayer since 1962, when the Supreme Court said it violated the First Amendment. But the Education Department has long promoted guidance saying students can pray together during lunch and other free times.

Trump issued revised guidance on the topic in 2020 that largely mirrored what was already on the books. Former President Joe Biden’s administration made minor changes in 2023, saying schools can take “reasonable steps” to ensure students aren’t pressured to participate in prayer.

During his campaign in 2023, Trump said he would support “bringing back prayer to our schools.”

The president, in the meandering speech, praised D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser for working with the federal government on the crime crackdown in her city.

Trump noted that Bowser has been good to work with although “that’s not her ideology and now I think it maybe is her ideology.”

“She’s taking a lot of heat, too, from the radical left,” he said. “You know, they don’t like that she’s allowing it. But look, she’s going to either allow it or we’ll just do it.”