Employment discounts did not reach the Federal Student Assistant Office of the Ministry of Education, despite the orders of cutting employees significantly in half and working to dismantle the agency.
The Ministry of Education revealed plans on March 11 to reduce its employees in half, and the president Donald Trump The executive was signed on Thursday to close the agency.
But those who deal with student loan services did not leave, according to the department's spokesman.
“No employee working in FAFSA or student loan service was affected by a reduction in strength,” Maadi Pederman, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Education, said in a statement to the Fox News Digiter.
The Federal Student Aid Office of the Ministry of Education is making more than 17.6 million free requests for federal students ’assistance (FAFSA) annually with employees of about 1,400 employees, according to its report 2024.
Trump still needs help in Congress in a plan to cancel the education department
President Donald Trump signs an executive order to reduce the size and scope of the education department alongside school children who sign their own publications, during a White House party on March 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, the Trump Department of Education said that FAFSA models are to be addressed more than the Biden administration at the same time last year. The agency announced on March 17 that it had already provided and processed 8 million 2025-2026 FAFSA-Models-a 50 % increase compared to the previous year.
A poll conducted by Gallup in February showed that the Americans' satisfaction with the state of education has decreased sharply over the past decade. The poll found that only 24 % of Americans are satisfied with the quality of education in the United States as of January 2025, compared to 37 % in January 2017.
Trump's order to dismantle the Ministry of Education comes after a long time against the agency, claiming the campaign path in September that he wanted to reduce the impact of the federal government on education “to stop the abuse of taxpayers' dollars in American youth.”
On Thursday, Trump said that despite plans to expand the agency, management functions that oversee Pell, student loans, and others that provide services for special needs will continue. However, they move to other agencies.
“It will be completely preserved and redistributed to various agencies and other departments that you will take care of well,” Trump said.
The Ministry of Education has been greatly dismantled in the new Trump executive order
President Donald Trump speaks at an educational event and signing an executive order in the Eastern Chamber of the White House, Thursday, March 20, 2025 (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
The White House Fact newspaper said in the executive order that the guidance aims to “hand over education to families instead of bureaucrats” and to direct the Minister of Education, Linda McMahon, to “take all the steps necessary to facilitate the closure of the Ministry of Education and the return of the Education Authority to the United States, while continuing to ensure the provision of effective and expected services to Americans and benefits.
Supporters of the agency were martyred with the “Nation Report Card”, which is the 2024 national evaluation of educational progress, which was issued every two years, published on January 27. Exam tests in the fourth and eighth degree and found almost stagnant mathematics for eighth grade students compared to 2022. Reading grades decreased at two levels of degree.
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At the same time, the executive matter faces multiple lawsuits from unions, educational areas and other groups that argue that the elimination of administration is illegal, as Congress alone is the authority to close a federal agency.
In addition, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y called on courts to intervene and prevent Trump's efforts to survey the department.
“The courts must behave to support the rule of law and stop the seizure of the authoritarian authority, Donald Trump,” Schumer said in a statement on Thursday.
but, McMahon The administration said with Congress to move forward in plans to close the agency.
“We will follow the law and meet the bureaucracy responsibly through work through Congress to ensure legal and organized transition,” McMahon said in a statement on Thursday.
