Elon Musk speaks next to President Donald Trump, not in the photo in the Oval Bureau of the White House in Washington, February 11, 2025.
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Employees with Elon MuskSecret government efforts, DOSE, They pushed the best injured officials in Education Department – Even those who recently appointed by President Donald Trump – from their own offices, moved the furniture and set up white noise machines to suppress their votes, gave agency employees.
The Secretary of Education, allowed her office, Denise Carter was noticed last week, sitting in front of the main leadership apartment, said one of the employees. Meanwhile, the secretary James Bergeron refrained from his office, the sources informed CNBC because the Doge employees occupied him.
“They took over the highest real estate; They got at home, “said CNBC official. “It was such an approach:” We can do what we want. “
View of the construction of the US Education Department in Washington, DC, USA, February 1, 2025.
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The sources of this story received anonymity because they were afraid of revenge if they were named.
After taking over the VIP offices on the seventh floor of the agency headquarters in Washington, representatives of the task group known as the Department of Performance Government, went to look for office equipment around the building to “go to their complex”, education “, education, the employee of the department said CNBC.
When asked about working arrangements and office space, deputy assistant to the secretary for communication Madi Biedermann said CNBC: “Doge employees are federal employees. They have been sworn in, have the necessary checks of the past and permits, and concentrate -Efehus, effective and responsible for taxpayers. ”
Trump repeatedly found the intention to dismantle the Education Department. As an agency authorized by Congress, the department cannot be eliminated without approval of the congress.
But in the meantime Musk and His Doge team He can slowly starve him.
A spokesman for the White House did not answer the CNBC questions about the flow of work in the education department.
Nominated for Trump for managing the Education Department, Linda McMahonShe will have a hearing on Thursday.
Officials of the Education Department described the tension between the Doge team and the management of the department – including the Republicans who came to the department to help implement Conservative education program.
When asked about the dynamics of work, Biedermann said that Doge employees “work with the department's staff. There is nothing inappropriate or vile. “
However, according to employees, Doge teams seem to compete with each other to get a very large headline of budget cuts.
On Monday, this headline was indeed very large: according to the Doge Media Social Media Free Free account, “$ 881 million” with the education department.
This competitive element of effort to reduce the cost of dog is probably partly caused by the rules regulating the employment of Doge employees.
Most Doge employees are designated as “special government employees”, a category that insulates them from some federal requirements for disclosing information. But in return, the status limits the total number of days that can work annually to 130.
The way the Doge teams seem to work are about four months to make all cuts. Then the agencies will stay to deal with the rainfall.
Changing dog requirements
Every day, the members of the Doge team were “secret”, said the current employee. “They didn't talk.”
Some employees said that they believe that they have to physically stay away from Doge employees, and one of the officials described the general atmosphere of the band as “intimidating”.
Still changing on the part of Doge employees about how much financing they need to lower employees, made employees confused and are afraid, two employees said CNBC.
What's more, they said that the requirements of the Doge teams seem arbitrary and not rooted for any political or political purposes.
Employees said that in many cases Doge teams do not tell employees of departments which contracts must cancel.
Instead, employees receive a figure, usually in person, not in writing, and they said that they have relieved so much money from programs, such as a source report. At other times they received a percentage of financing and said that it reduced you so much.
One of the employees canceled the demand for Doge employees to reduce about 80% of financing of websites and services that support federal applications for a student loan.
According to Mark, Kantrowitz is applying for help in College, using a free application for federal student assistance or fafs.