Donald Trump’s Department of Education said Tuesday it was slashing its staff numbers by almost half, the opening gambit in a plan to dismantle a department that right-wing Republicans have long detested. The move is the latest to roil the US federal government in the six weeks since the president returned to the White House pledging to dramatically slim what he says is a flabby and inefficient bureaucracy, with thousands of employees across the country already fired.
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