Fired Gov’t Worker Thinks Trump Admin Can’t Handle Basic Functions Without ‘Experts’ Like Herself

A laid-off Department of Education employee claimed that workforce reductions at the agency would make it harder to support special needs students during a Wednesday MSNBC appearance.

The Department of Education announced it had cut 50% of its staff Tuesday between voluntary buyouts, terminating probationary employees and laying off bureaucrats in what is described as the initial phase in fulfilling Trump’s campaign promise to close down the cabinet department. Brittany Coleman, a civil rights attorney at the agency who also served as a shop steward for the American Federation of Government Employees prior to being laid off, told MSNBC host Ana Cabrera that “chaos” would result from the decision.

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“I will tell you that I think the impact is that they’re going to get the residuals of the chaos that we’ve been experiencing as employees,” Coleman said. “It’s hard to believe that removing functions and removing the people who do those functions, such as making sure that students receive their services if they have special needs, or making sure that there is adequate documentation of the students receiving those needs, how that eliminating their function is going to help the American public. It’s just unclear to me how removing Head Start or removing Title I funding through Black Grants, how any of that would be actually helpful in getting to the students who need it most.”

Earlier in the interview, Coleman criticized