"On Tuesday, the Trump administration fired nearly half of the Education Department’s roughly 4,100 employees, leaving the agency with a skeletal staff of about 2,183. Now, a day later, the scope and impact of those layoffs are beginning to take shape," Inside Higher Ed reports.

...McMahon has stated repeatedly that the cuts will not affect statutorily required programs like Pell Grants and funding for special needs students. But Beth Maglione, interim president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, is not convinced that’s possible.

“Claiming that eliminating half the department won’t affect its services—without any clear plan to redistribute the workload—is, at best, naïve and, at worst, deliberately misleading,” she said in a statement Wednesday morning, adding that there has been little explanation about where the department will go from here.

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Publication Date: 3/13/2025