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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kelly Rissman

Staff overseeing $15 billion in special education funding is gutted by Trump’s shutdown layoffs: report

The Trump administration is slashing staffers overseeing $15 billion in special education funding as part of its effort to lay off government workers amid the federal shutdown.

The reductions in force at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services are part of the estimated 4,000 federal workers that the Trump administration said it will lay off during the government shutdown, a move that experts warn could impact millions of children.

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