With hundreds fewer workers, can the Federal Student Aid office still function?

Date:

March 21, 2025

The Trump administration recently announced it was slashing the federal Education Department’s workforce in half. This week the president signed an executive order declaring he was dismantling the agency “once and for all.”

In the interim, people he pushed out the door were quietly rehired.

An internal organizational chart obtained by USA TODAY shows roughly three dozen technology experts were reinstated after being laid off from the Federal Student Aid office, the marquee division of the agency that helps millions of students pay for college and oversees nearly $2 trillion in federal student loans.

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With hundreds fewer workers, can the Federal Student Aid office still function?

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