Washington, D.C. — On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced an unprecedented workforce reduction that will affect more than 1,300 employees, a move pulled straight from the radical right-wing Project 2025 playbook.
In response, Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, released the following statement:
Gutting the Department of Education’s staff by nearly 50 percent makes clear that despite what he says, President Donald Trump favors hatchets over scalpels. His administration is trying to handicap a public agency that oversees vital programs on which America’s most vulnerable students and families, particularly in rural areas, rely. This is a thinly veiled attempt to further enrich billionaires at the expense of everyday Americans.
Make no mistake: Particularly when stacked atop President Trump’s recent executive orders targeting America’s schools, such massive cuts will directly affect the quality of public education in the United States—meaning today’s kids will have fewer educational opportunities than their parents or even older brothers and sisters did.
Although the Constitution prevents President Trump from making the Department of Education disappear, his attempts to hamper it reveal that American students are his absolute last concern.
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