This isn't reducing bureaucracy, it's creating more of it, another layer of it. Where states previously primarily dealt with the Department of Education, they will now have to deal with multiple federal agencies. The Department claimed, without evidence, success in transferring career and technical education and adult education programs to the Department of Labor. That transfer has not gone smoothly, and it has, in fact, cost taxpayers even more. The programs your department next plans to move are orders of magnitude larger and more complex, including programs like Title I, Impact Aid and trio. (03:09–03:20)
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