The Trump administration has launched a hiring blitz at the agency it vowed to eliminate, according to an internal presentation reviewed by POLITICO.
The Education Department’s Federal Student Aid office saw some of the most significant staffing cuts at the agency last March during the administration’s government-wide reduction in force. Now, that same office is trying to hire 334 full-time employees by 2027 — a 45 percent increase from its staffing levels as of last month — according to the presentation delivered to FSA staff in mid-April.
The office manages some of the agency’s largest and most well-known programs that affect millions of Americans, including the student loan portfolio and college financial aid forms while also overseeing the companies that service student debt and schools that receive federal student aid.
