The reduction of staff did not hit the Office of the Federal Student Assistance of the Department of Education, despite the orders on dramatic reduction of staff at half and working on the removal of the agency.
The Ministry of Education discovered plans on March 11 to reduce its staff in half and the president Donald Trump On Thursday, he signed an executive command to close the agency.
But those who operate the services of the student loan are not released, according to a spokesman for the department.
“No employees working on FAFSA or servicing a student loan have influenced a reduction in force,” said Madi Biedermann, a spokeswoman for the Education Department, in a Fox News Digital statement.
The Office of the Federal Student of the Department of Education for more than 17.6 million free applications for federal student assistance (FAFSA) is formed annually with a staff of approximately 1,400 employees, according to his report 2024.
Trump is still needed to help Congress plan to abolish the education department
President Donald Trump signs the executive order to reduce the size and scope of the Department of Education, together with school children who sign their own versions, during the 19th March 2025 Ceremony. (Chip Somodeville/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, the Trump Administration Department of the Administration Education has announced that it is processed in advance by FAFSA forms from the Bidel administration at the same time last year. On March 17, the Agency announced that it had already delivered and processed 8 million 2025-2026 FAFSA form-which is an increase of 50% compared to the previous year.
The Gallop survey published in February shows that the satisfaction of Americans has dropped abruptly in the last decade with a state of education. The poll found that only 24% of Americans were satisfied with the quality of education in the US since January 2025, compared to 37% in January 2017.
Trump’s command to dismantle the education department comes after he has long tightened the agency, claiming that in September the campaign in September is to reduce the impact of the Federal Government on education to “stop the abuse of your dollars of taxpayers to indoctrinate US youth.”
On Thursday, Trump said that despite the plans for the reduction of the agency, the functions of the department will be overseen by Pell Grants, student loans and others that provide services to those with special needs. However, they would move to other agencies.
“They will be preserved completely and redistributed to various other agencies and departments that will take care of them very well,” Trump said.
The Education Department is significantly dismantled in Novi Trump’s executive order
President Donald Trump speaks at the educational event and signing an executive order in the Eastern White House room, Thursday, March 20, 2025 (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
The fact of the White House at the Executive Order said that the Directive aims to “submit education to families instead of bureaucracy” and instructs education secretary Linda McMahon to “take all the necessary steps to make it easier to close the education and restore education in countries, continuing to ensure effective and unlimited services and advantages. “
The agency’s exclusion supporters cited “Nation’s Report Card”, a national assessment of education in 2024, published every two years, published on January 27. The exam is tested by fourth and eighth grade students and have discovered almost standing mathematical results for eight schoolchildren compared to two points in classes.
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In the meantime, the executive order faces multiple unions lawsuits, school districts and other groups that claim that the removal of the department is illegally, because only Congress has the authority to close the Federal Agency.
In addition, the leader of the minority Senate Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., urged the courts to enter and block Trump’s efforts to delete the department.
“The courts must act in order to support the rule of the law and stop the Grab of Tiranian powers of Donald Trump,” Schumer said in a statement on Thursday.
However, McMahon He said that the department would cooperate with Congress to progress with plans to close the agency.
“We will follow the law and responsibly remove the bureaucracy by working through Congress to ensure a lawful and neat transition,” McMahon said in a statement on Thursday.
