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'Your position is being abolished': Education Department staff get official reduction-in-force notices
ABC News ^ | April 10, 2025, 8:47 PM | Arthur Jones II

Posted on 04/11/2025 9:29:07 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Over 1,300 federal employees impacted by the Department of Education’s March 11 reduction in force received their official separation notices Thursday, according to copies reviewed by ABC News.

“It is with great regret that I must inform you that your position is being abolished and you have been reached for reduction in force (RIF) action,” the notices read, in part.

The RIF was one of the first major steps in massively reducing the Education Department after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to close the agency on March 20.

Both Trump and McMahon have suggested they will continue reducing the size of the agency and return education power and decisions to the states. […]

“What they’re doing is illegal,” (NAACP Chief of Policy and Legislative Affairs Patrice) Willoughby told ABC News. “They know it’s illegal. It creates damage to people. They’re damaging not only what they say is the deep state — really dedicated federal workers who are working professionally on behalf of education families and young people but they’re also damaging these families and these kids in these communities, many of them who voted for this administration and the constituents of these senators and representatives, who are saying nothing about it.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Local News
KEYWORDS: abcfakenews; doe; naacp; poeticjustice; rif; tds; waaambulance
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To: Olog-hai
"... really dedicated federal workers who are working professionally on behalf of education families and young people..."

Clearly, this person is using hallucinogens...

21 posted on 04/11/2025 10:36:36 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: Olog-hai

Glorious...


22 posted on 04/11/2025 10:48:56 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Texas Eagle
"federal workers who are working professionally on behalf of education families and young people ... Education families??? Wait, what? Huh? What does that even mean?

Probably similar to the Five Families that run/ran all kinds of businesses. They could be referred to as the Education Mafia, a la Don Corleone.

Let's see....."I do not want to indoctrinate everybody, just my enemies."

In honor of Take the Cannoli - Destroy the Bible, Use The Alinsky

23 posted on 04/11/2025 11:27:17 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Ahhhh. A Freudian slip. That makes sense.


24 posted on 04/11/2025 11:37:05 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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25 posted on 04/11/2025 12:56:50 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (=)
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26 posted on 04/11/2025 12:57:45 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (=)
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To: wildcard_redneck

It’s always been a thorn in my side that the “govt worker” makes more money that I, has better retirement than I, has better healthcare insurance than I, lives in a house that I cannot afford, drives a car that I cannot afford.... etc.

The “govt worker” lives better than those who pay for the “govt worker”. Now I exclude miliary, police, fire from this. These types of “govt workers” are very necessary and should be compensated accordingly.

The “govt worker” produces nothing that contributes to the economy. The “govt worker” is the problem. I am tired of working so hard such that the “govt worker” may enjoy the perks of life that I must pay for and cannot enjoy.


27 posted on 04/11/2025 1:27:44 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. https://youtu.be/VexKSRKoWQY)
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28 posted on 04/11/2025 4:13:03 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: V_TWIN

“Reason for the Friday afternoon hand out was to give people a 2 day cooling off period......that idea was only partly successful.”

“- You’re gonna lay off Samir and Michael?

- Ah, yeah, we’re gonna bring in some entry-level graduates. Farm some work out to Singapore. That’s the usual deal.

- It’s standard operating procedure.

- Do they know this yet?

- No. No, of course not.

- We find it’s always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there’s less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.


29 posted on 04/12/2025 2:38:58 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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