President Donald Trump’s promise to shrink the bloated federal bureaucracy is taking another step forward with the physical downsizing of the Department of Education.
The department said Thursday it would move out of its headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C., according to The Washington Post.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Building will be abandoned, with the space being given to the Energy Department.
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“We have made unprecedented progress in reducing the federal education footprint, and now we are pleased to give this building to an agency that will benefit far more from its space than the Department of Education,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.
The Education Department, formally created by Congress in 1979, cannot be closed without congressional approval. Although the department cannot be abolished, the Trump administration has radically downsized it.
The department’s workforce has been roughly cut in half since Trump took office.
“Once again, the Trump
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