Posted on 03/19/2025 4:43:18 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Education Secretary Linda McMahon told Newsmax on Tuesday night that the planned cuts to about 50% of her agency's workforce began earlier the day with email notices sent to affected employees.
Before President Donald Trump's inauguration, the department said it had 4,133 employees and it will have 2,138 after the cuts. Included in the workforce reduction are nearly 600 employees who accepted voluntary resignation opportunities and retirement over the past seven weeks.
"We wanted to make sure that everybody got [their notice] before they left [for the day]," McMahon told "The Record With Greta Van Susteren." "But [we met with] their department heads and everyone ... this afternoon, both career folks and political folks, to fully discuss [it] with them.
"I've done restructuring in the private sector. And [it was done] as humanitarian as you want to make it for those folks who are leaving. It's always difficult."
The department said affected employees will be placed on administrative leave March 21 and will receive full pay and benefits until June 9. McMahon said their severance packages include one week of pay for every year of employment up to 10 years and two weeks for each of the next five years.
McMahon, who was confirmed March 3 after a 51-45 vote by the Senate, said her department has worked with the Department of Government Efficiency to consolidate "programs that were duplicative." She said the department is going to save about $500 billion "just on what we've done so far."
"When we looked across all of the Department of Education, and we have been working with DOGE and the audit that they came in and showed us a lot of the programs that were duplicative," she said. "When
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2,138 employees still sounds like a lot for a department that’s going to be abolished...but maybe they’re necessary to assist with the further dismantling?
Outstanding!!!
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How does that translate to its budget of $250 billion? Something is fishy.
Do it in stages. Hopefully we can get 60 senators in 2026 and then get Congress to dissolve it. I know it was established by an EO but didn’t Congress then ratify it? If so take it down to a skeleton crew that only sends money to states.
That’s what appears to be happening...they’ll put a piece here, a piece there...these workers are only paper pushers...so it’s about efficiency....and we know how good government is at that...
EXPOSED 🚨 Department of Education is laundering money back to the Democrat Party | Less than 25% of $280 billion is spent educating students
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They only need 5 people and Grok
Which D.C. just has been assigned the lawsuit that I’m sure has already been filed?
Heard Tampon Tim tell his audience that college assistance would not be available. Trump has to explain all the details of this necessary move.
Say Bye!
HOW ARE THEY GOING TO PREVENT COMPUTER SABOTAGE????
. Now do the other half.
It is difficult for me to imagine what a Department of Education computer sabotage might be like. Would students start learning more? Would the bureaucrats suddenly start being efficient at their jobs?
Well Linda, let’s call this what it is, shall we? A half assed job of eliminating the DOE.
Lots of grants to state level agencies + direct loans & grants to students. It adds up :(
What should change is that the States and Locla Eduxation Agencies will shift gears from prioritizing kissing uo to the federal level & all these NGOs that feed off that level to focusing on the students as their priority instead.
Think backup, worst-case scenario plans.
McMahon, who was confirmed March 3 after a 51-45 vote by the Senate, said her department has worked with the Department of Government Efficiency to consolidate “programs that were duplicative.” Yeah, Linda, I agree, ‘programs that were duplicative’ were probably unnecessary.
“2,138 employees still sounds like a lot for a department that’s going to be abolished...but maybe they’re necessary to assist with the further dismantling?”
Old article. Those were the cuts BEFORE elimination of the department.
A lot of the DOED was for student assistance including scholarships and loans so that will have to be moved into another dept.
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