Education Secretary Linda McMahon decided who to fire in the mass layoffs announced this week at the U.S. Department of Education, President Donald Trump said on March 12.
“We’re keeping the best people and Linda McMahon is a real professional, very, actually very sophisticated business person, and she cut a large number, but she kept the best people. And we’ll see how it all works out,” Trump told reporters during an appearance in Washington with Ireland’s prime minister.
The Department of Education said on Tuesday that it was slashing its workforce by about half, laying off some 1,315 employees within 90 days after another approximately 600 accepted buyouts....
