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WASHINGTON — Rep. Melanie Stansbury on Tuesday sounded the alarm that Elon Musk and his surrogates are “actively dismantling” the U.S. Department of Education , as staffers with his Department of Government Efficiency are on-site at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., poring over federal contracts and programs.
Some recipients of federal education grants told HuffPost on Tuesday their contracts had been abruptly terminated in the last 24 hours.One person who works at a research company that contracts with the Institute of Education Sciences, the nonpartisan research arm of the Education Department, said their contracts were all canceled Monday night, “effective immediately.
Musk’s team of tech workers has operated in secrecy, potentially gained access to millions of federal workers’ sensitive records and triggered numerous lawsuits. It appears intent on gutting entire federal agencies, starting with the U.S. Agency for International Development, which provides tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid for global health and disaster relief. DOGE
“We expect that the Department of Education is going to potentially be dissolved in the coming days,” said Rep. Melanie Stansbury Stansbury has been particularly worried about what will happen to tribal education programs in Native American communities if Trump and Musk proceed with trying to eliminate the Department of Education.
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