Education Dept moves more work to other agencies, but hasn’t reassigned more employees yet
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Key Points:
- The Education Department is transferring responsibilities for several programs to the State Department and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a broader plan to dismantle its operations, continuing a process begun with similar agreements last fall involving the Labor and Interior Departments.
- These interagency agreements aim to break up federal bureaucracy and improve program delivery efficiency, with the Education Department currently co-managing these programs alongside the partner agencies, though no new employee transfers have occurred yet.
- The Trump administration seeks congressional approval to permanently close the Education Department, with Secretary Linda McMahon stating the goal is to secure enough votes to shut down the department, despite opposition from employee unions concerned about losing educational expertise.
- The State Department will assist in managing foreign funding disclosures
