Education Department to reduce staff by half

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Meanwhile, staff have been awaiting the executive order from Trump to close down the department since last Wednesday.
49% : Within FSA, the cuts will be most severe among teams that work directly on policy and higher education oversight, including the Ombudsman Office, which investigates student complaints into student loan practices and financial aid.
35% : Trump is reportedly planning to sign an executive order directing McMahon to "take all necessary steps" to return authority over education to the states and facilitate closure of the Department of Education "to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law," according to draft text reviewed by Inside Higher Ed.
29% : At the Environmental Protection Agency, Trump expects 65 percent of the workforce to go, according to Government Executive, a trade publication tracking the layoffs.
26% : " While the government layoffs are wide-reaching, President Trump has frequently targeted the Education Department for cuts, even vowing to shut down the agency.

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