Linda McMahon didn’t need a Trump executive order to make big Education Department layoffs
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The layoffs, combined with recent staff buyouts, mean that the number of Education Department staff has dropped by nearly 50% in the last two weeks. President Donald Trump has expressed a desire to close the department.

The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday that it’s cutting its workforce nearly in half.

Roughly a third of staff will lose their jobs through a “reduction in force,” the department said in a press release. Combined with voluntary buyouts, the Education Department will have just under 2,200 employees by the end of the month, compared with 4,133 when President Donald Trump took office with promises to shutter the department.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    39·
    2 days ago

    That’s clearly not the point of gutting federal agencies. If money was the objective here, they’d be taking an entirely different approach.

    • crystalmerchant@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      Completely right. This ideologically motivated not “cost-savings” motivated or whatever other bullshit reason they throw out. They’re targeting “woke”