Freshly-confirmed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos greeted an anxious-seeming assembly of her staff at the Education Department headquarters with reassuring remarks Wednesday afternoon. On an unseasonably warm day in Washington, the assembly hall was hot and stuffy, only more uncomfortable as department staff members filled the standing room and jostled against reporters.

Members of the press, no less sensitive to bureaucratic shifts than actual bureaucrats, groused about being grouped in a “press pit.” The department’s Obama-era communications team ushered reporters to the back of the hall rather than actually section them off—but the core of the old team, rumor has it (and Twitter confirms it), has joined the #Resistance.