ABC News
The announcement came shortly after DOE employees were told that their offices — including those in the National Capital Region, along with regional locations — would be closed for the day on Wednesday.
Citing “security reasons,” an email went out saying that the buildings would be inaccessible starting at 6 p.m., a source within the department told ABC News.
“You must vacate the building by that time,” a department email to employees reads in part, adding “All ED offices in the NCR and the regions will be closed to employees and contractor employees on Wednesday, March 12th.” More
I look forward to the day that Secretary McMahon fires the last Dept. of Ed. employee and then resigns in triumph to make the head count ZERO.
Yes, I thought the plan was to make it zero. So why ‘downsizing’???
If people who voted for Trump are upset right now it is because LESS is happening than what we voted for. Of course it has been less than 2 months, but there appears to be backpedaling in some areas.
@LCD,
Fully eliminating the DOE will require an act of Congress, and that hasn’t happened yet. There are legal requirements to disburse allocated funds, etc… So they can cut, and cut deeply, but they have to maintain the DOE until the legal obligation to do so is removed.
I expect communists will filibuster.
KR
Re: “Downsizing”
There are probably those – albeit VERY few – in the DoE who do an actual necessary job. Rather than being fired, they may be rolled into another department, in the same way that a small portion of USAID was preserved and rolled into the State Department.
That is an optimistic interpretation, of course. There are others.
The media is trying to gin up fear over student loans programs if the DOE is hollowed out.
@Dr. Tar:
That needs to be axed as well!
But I guess it’ll take a different axe.
@ATE,
Key distinction… USAID was created by executive order, and subsequently funded by Congress repeatedly over the years. So it can be eliminated by executive order as well. How the funding gets resolved is not clear to me.
KR
We should hold a national CELEBRATION when the department is 100% GONE. Until then, I’m not holding my breath. I still remember the GOP’s promises/lies from 1994 regarding abolishing this cancer.
MrLiberty – definitely. I never fully believe anything until I see it. Learned that from being married.