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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Michael Sainato

Workers inside Department of Education say Trump’s latest bid to dismantle agency ‘makes no sense’

An older woman at a White House lectern.
Linda McMahon, the US education secretary, is overseeing the destruction of her own agency at the behest of Donald Trump. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Donald Trump’s bid to gut the US Department of Education “makes no sense”, according to workers inside the federal agency, who accuse the administration of trying to make their lives “as difficult and traumatic as possible”.

Three employees inside the department spoke to the Guardian, with one warning that morale has been “completely lost”, 10 months after Trump returned to the White House. All requested to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation.

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