Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner ‘s Restoring America project will feature its latest series, “ Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy.” We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what still needs to be done. To learn more about the series, click here .

This spring, Education Secretary Linda McMahon slashed staff at the Department of Education , laying off 1,400 employees to shrink the agency to just over 2,000 — about half its former size. The reductions vastly exceeded what most had expected and shattered the department’s comfortable lethargy.

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