Trump’s Education Department Slashing Almost 50% of Its Workforce
The reduction will leave the department with 2,183 workers....
The reduction will leave the department with 2,183 workers....
Three departments started reviewing federal contracts, grants connected to Columbia due to the antisemitic protests that plagued the campus last spring....
The Senate confirmed Linda McMahon as Education Secretary. Trump said last mont he hopes she does such a great job that she puts herself out of a job....
"through an elaborate, years-long 'straw student' scheme"...
However, it does not apply to the Treasury Department or Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent....
See? You cannot cancel student loan debts. ...
“Review of the contracts uncovered wasteful and ideologically driven spending not in the interest of students and taxpayers”...
This should be fun since President Donald Trump wants to dismantle the awful department. ...
"We're ranked number 40. So if we're ranked number 40 that means something's really wrong, right?"...
"DEI was never about ‘equity’—it was about enforcing ideological conformity and institutionalizing discrimination."...
Trump’s first weeks back in office make one thing clear—his mission to dismantle and overhaul the federal bureaucracy is well underway. His playbook is simple: grant the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to an agency, expose financial waste, and cut aggressively—eliminating excess spending and personnel,...
"Weingarten claimed that Trump intends to use the money directed toward public schools and allocate it toward tax cuts for billionaires."...
"preparing an executive order aimed at eventually closing the Education Department and, in the short term, dismantling it from within"...
"Too many universities have tolerated widespread antisemitic harassment and the illegal encampments that paralyzed campus life last year"...
"These actions are in line with President Trump’s ongoing commitment to end illegal discrimination and wasteful spending across the federal government."...
“if you do a great job, you will put yourself out of a job. Because you’re going to be sending it back to the states”...
“Several Jewish students who attended Monday night’s student government meeting at Tufts University said they were subject to harassment and were even spat on.”...
Basic biology: Title IX protects human beings born female....
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