{"id":2584917,"date":"2026-03-28T14:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/education-department-abandons-headquarters-as-agency-heads-for-total-extinction\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:27:08","slug":"education-department-abandons-headquarters-as-agency-heads-for-total-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/education-department-abandons-headquarters-as-agency-heads-for-total-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Department Abandons Headquarters as Agency Heads for Total Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feducation-department-abandons-headquarters-as-agency-heads-for-total-extinction%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2584917&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump\u2019s administration is pushing to shrink the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-lauds-scotus-makes-off-script-call-for-education-reform\/\" title=\"... praises SCOTUS, urges education reform off-script.\">federal education bureaucracy<\/a> by downsizing the Department of Education\u2019s footprint in Washington, D.C. The DoE announced it will vacate its headquarters in the Lyndon B. Johnson Building,with that space being given to the Energy Department,which plans to move into the LBJ building after relocating from the outdated Forrestal Building. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the move continues unprecedented efforts to reduce the department\u2019s footprint and would save taxpayers money by reallocating space to a better-positioned agency. The Education Department cannot be closed without congressional approval, but the administration has emphasized that it has been aggressively downsizing its operations. The department\u2019s workforce has been roughly halved since Trump took office, and the building it is leaving is about 70% vacant. The relocation is expected to save about $4.8 million per year and to be completed by August. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-celebrates-gender-policy-council-as-world-burns\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Celebrates Gender Policy Council as World Burns\">fact sheet claims<\/a> the Energy Department will save about $350 million in the move, and it describes broader claims of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-half-of-tennesseans-support-expanding-school-choice-poll-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"More than half of Tennesseans support expanding school choice: Poll - Washington Examiner\">expanding education freedom<\/a> and breaking up the federal education bureaucracy to return control to states.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s promise to shrink the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/laid-bare-for-all-to-see-how-the-fbi-raid-exposes-deep-state-corruption\/\" title=\"\u2018Laid Bare For All To See\u2019: How The FBI Raid Exposes Deep State Corruption\">bloated federal bureaucracy<\/a> is taking another step forward with the physical downsizing of the Department of Education.<\/p>\n<p>The department said Thursday it would move out of its headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C., according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2026\/03\/26\/education-department-headquarters-closed-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Lyndon B. Johnson Building will be abandoned, with the space being given to the Energy Department.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have made unprecedented progress in reducing the federal education footprint, and now we are pleased to give this building to an agency that will benefit far more from its space than the Department of Education,&rdquo; Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Education Department, formally created by Congress in 1979, cannot be closed without congressional approval. Although the department cannot be abolished, the Trump administration has radically downsized it.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!container) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=\"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\"; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"pubname\", \"westernjournalcom\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"widgetname\", \"001w000001jULVcAAO_M12924\");  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ append inside the container so player shows in correct spot \t\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadAnyclip(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #anyclipvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#anyclipvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The department&rsquo;s workforce has been roughly cut in half since Trump took office.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Once again, the Trump administration is taking a strong step to reduce bureaucratic bloat and act as a responsible steward of taxpayer dollars,&rdquo; House Education Committee Chairman Tim Walberg said, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/03\/26\/energy-boot-education-hq-00847420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Trump and Secretary McMahon have been committed to right-sizing the Department so our education system serves students, not bureaucrats,&rdquo; the Michigan Republican added.<\/p>\n<p>The department said Thursday that the building it is leaving was 70 percent vacant.<\/p>\n<p>Moving out to another D.C. office will save $4.8 million per year and is expected to be completed by August.<\/p>\n<p>The Energy Department&rsquo;s James V. Forrestal Building is outdated, meaning that shifting it to the Lyndon B. Johnson Building will reduce costs, the administration said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One year ago, President Trump signed one of the most consequential executive orders of his presidency &mdash; to break up the federal education bureaucracy and return education to the states,&rdquo; Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said, according to an Education Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/news\/press-release\/us-department-of-education-downsize-footprint-washington-dc-and-save-taxpayers-over-48-million-annually\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thanks to the hard work of so many, we have made unprecedented progress in reducing the federal education footprint, and now we are pleased to give this building to an agency that will benefit far more from its space than the Department of Education,&rdquo; she continued.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is an important step in our efforts to forge brighter futures for our nation&rsquo;s students, honor the taxpayers who invest in their promise, and support the civil servants who keep this vital work moving forward,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Secretary Chris Wright meanwhile said that &ldquo;relocating to the LBJ building will deliver significant taxpayer savings and will ensure the Energy Department continues to deliver on its mission.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/media\/document\/fact-sheet-us-department-of-education-downsize-its-footprint-washington-dc-march-27-2026-113496.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact sheet<\/a> noted that &ldquo;the Trump Administration has secured the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >largest national education freedom expansion<\/a> in history, empowered state education leaders with the flexibility to innovate, and broken up the education bureaucracy by partnering with agencies better positioned to manage critical programs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Trump Administration has successfully decreased the scope of the federal education bureaucracy, so much that the headquarters building is no longer needed,&rdquo; the fact sheet said.<\/p>\n<p>The fact sheet estimated the Department of Energy will save $350 million in the move.<\/p>\n<p>It also noted that the Department of Education &ldquo;has spent more than $3 trillion on the federal education bureaucracy since 1980 &mdash; with dismal results.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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The department will abandon the Lyndon B. Johnson Building, with the space being turned over to the Energy Department. Education Secretary Linda McMahon described the move as part of unprecedented progress in reducing the department\u2019s footprint and said the vacated space would benefit a different agency more than the Education Department does. Although the department was created in 1979 and cannot be abolished without Congress, the Trump administration has reduced its size significantly.<\/p>\n<p>Officials noted the Education Department\u2019s workforce has been cut substantially, and the building being vacated is about 70% empty. Moving out and transferring space to the Energy Department is expected to save about $4.8 million per year and should be completed by August. The plan relies in part on relocating the Energy Department into the Lyndon B. 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The move is expected to save about $350 million overall for the Energy Department, according to the administration, which also criticized the Education Department\u2019s long-run spending since 1980, claiming it has wasted more than $3 trillion on the federal education bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>House Education Committee Chair Tim Walberg praised the development as a step toward reducing bureaucratic waste and ensuring taxpayer dollars are spent more efficiently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2584918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ben-Working-Feature-Image-2026-03-28T130348.446.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[15016,5152,18156,5045,9132],"class_list":["post-2584917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-bureaucracy","tag-education","tag-extinction","tag-government","tag-headquarters"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ben-Working-Feature-Image-2026-03-28T130348.446.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2584917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584921,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584917\/revisions\/2584921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2584918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}