The Trump Administration continues its efforts to hollow out the U.S. Department of Education by sending six programs to other federal agencies. The U.S. Department of Education announced the changes in a press conference on Tuesday, November 18, 2025.
Although federal law assigns responsibility for these programs to the U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is making an end-run around the law by entering into contracts with the other federal agencies to operate the programs under U.S. Department of Education oversight.
These interagency agreements (IAAs) send the six program to the following four agencies:
U.S. Department of Education staff who manage these programs will be transferred to the four federal agencies.
The agreements were signed on September 30, 2025, but not announced until now. It will take several months to transfer the programs to the other federal agencies.