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Elon Musk speaks with President Donald Trump, not in the photo, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025.
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Employees of ELON ALMIZCLEThe cutting effort of the secret government, DOGE, They have pushed the highest rank officials in the Department of Education – Even those recently appointed by President Donald Trump, outside their own offices, reorganized the furniture and established white noise machines to cushion their voices, agency employees said.
Private of his office, the Secretary of Interine Education, Denise Carter, was seen last week sitting out of the main leadership suite, said an employee. Meanwhile, acting under Secretary James Bergeron he was delayed in his office, sources told CNBC, because Dege’s employees were occupying him.
“They took care of the best real estate; they were made at home,” an official told CNBC. “It was that attitude of ‘we can do what we want'”.
A view of the United States Department of Education in Washington, DC, USA, February 1, 2025.
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The sources of this story were granted anonymity because they feared a remuneration if they were appointed.
Having taken charge of the VIP offices on the seventh floor of the agency’s headquarters in Washington, DC, representatives of the working group known as the Government’s efficiency department and then searched office equipment around the building to “move to its complex “An education. The department employee told CNBC.
When asked about the work agreements and the office space, the deputy secretary of the communications, Madi Biedermann, told CNBC: “DEGE employees are federal employees. They have sworn, they have the verifications and authorizations of the necessary background , and focus on making the department more cost.
Trump has repeatedly declared his intention to dismantle the Department of Education. As an agency authorized by Congress, the department cannot be eliminated without the approval of Congress.
But in the meantime, Musk and his Dux team You can starve slowly.
A White House spokesman did not answer CNBC’s questions about the workflow in the Department of Education.
Trump’s nominee to direct the Department of Education, Linda McMahonYou will have your confirmation audience on Thursday.
The officials of the Department of Education described the tension between the Eggo team and the leadership of the department, including the Republicans who arrived in the department to help implement a Conservative Education Agenda.
When asked about the dynamics of the workplace, Biedermann said that Dense employees “are working in collaboration with the department staff. There is nothing inappropriate or disastrous.”
According to employees, however, Doge equipment seems to be competing with each other to obtain a large holder on budget cuts.
On Monday, that holder was really very large: contracts of “$ 881 million” of contracts with the Department of Education had been canceled, according to the Social Media Doge account.
This competitive element of the Doge cost reduction effort is probably partly due to the rules that govern the use of the duxes staff.
The majority of Dux workers are designated as “special government employees”, a category that isolates them from some federal dissemination requirements. But in return, the State limits the total number of days that can work per year to 130.
The way Dux teams seem to be operating, have about four months to make all the cuts they can. After that, the agencies will have to deal with the consequences.
Doge changing demands
Day by day, Dux team members have been “secrets,” said a current employee. “They did not conversation.”
Some employees said they feel they need to remain physically out of the path of Doge employees, and an official described the general environment of the team as “intimidating.”
Constantly changing the demands of Doge employees on the amount of funds they need to reduce have left the employees confused and scared, two employees said to CNBC.
What is more, they said, the demands of Dux teams seem to be arbitrary and not rooted in any political or political objective.
In many cases, Doge teams do not tell department employees what contracts need to cancel, employees said.
On the other hand, employees receive a figure, typically in person instead of writing, and are told to reduce so much money from the programs, the sources report. Other times they were given a percentage of funds and they were told to reduce so much.
An employee recalled a demand from Dog employees to reduce around 80% of the funds for websites and services that support federal applications for student loans.
According to the expert in Higher Education, Mark Kantrowitz, around 17 million families request university assistance every year using the Free Federal Aid for Students, or FAFSA, Mark Kantrowitz.
