Mass layoffs ordered at Department of Education

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Mass layoffs are hitting the Department of Education on Wednesday as the Trump administration continues its deep cuts to the federal workforce.

The department will be closed for the day, and “reduction in force” notices are expected to go out and affect nearly half the agency’s employees, the agency wrote in a press release.

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