Education Dept Shifts Workforce Duties As Trump Moves To Dismantle Agency

The Department of 🎓Education (ED) on Monday launched a new portal for streamlining federal workforce development programs and announced it is shifting the responsibility to the Department of Labor (DOL).

ED will be transferring funds and detailing staff to the Labor Department to implement the new integrated state plan portal and support the programs, a press release from ED stated. The action is meant to make DOL the “centralized hub for federal workforce programs” as the Trump administration works to slowly dismantle the Education Department.

“The Trump administration is committed to ensuring that all Americans are prepared for a fulfilling and meaningful career,” Secretary of 🎓Education Linda McMahon said in the press release. “I am confident that the Department of Labor is well positioned to cooperatively administer, implement, and streamline these critical career and adult 🎓Education programs.”

“To prepare our next generation of American workers, the Trump Administration is taking decisive action to streamline unnecessary bureaucracy and advance the skills needed to fill jobs of the future,” Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in the press release. “The Department of Labor has an exciting and important role to play here, and I’m honored to team up with Secretary McMahon and our state partners to better connect workers with the training they need to find in-demand, mortgage-paying jobs.”