The Department of Education is laying off about 50% of its workforce, the first move in a strategy to eventually shutter the agency.
Trump can’t kill it on its own–he needs Congress to enact legislation since Congress has authorized the Department, and even the most imperial president can’t override statutes.
He can’t even amend the Constitution by Tweets, despite what Joe Biden and the American Bar Association claimed back in January.
The first of the layoffs are being announced as I am writing, and the federal bureaucrats who are subject to the reduction in force will begin telework until they are put on paid administrative leave, and eventually let go.
BREAKING: The Education Department is about to initiate layoffs of about 50% of its workforce of 4,400 employees beginning Tuesday evening.
President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating the entire…
