The Education Department will relocate from its headquarters to a smaller Washington office as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency, officials said Thursday.

The agency has seen its ranks thinned by mass layoffs since Donald Trump took office, and its headquarters building has been 70% vacant, the Education Department said. In its place, the Energy Department will assume the lease in the building.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon hailed it as a milestone in the administration’s efforts to shutter the agency, which Trump ordered to move toward closure a year ago this month.

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    They’re watching everything be dismantled.

    Their pop culture is dying too, not sure if they’ve noticed that. Everything they reference is from at least 2010 or earlier pretty much.

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      That pop culture part is something I’ve really noticed as well. A while ago I saw someone talking about how the younger generations are no longer being allowed to have a future, and that was an aspect of the point they were making. Beyond just politicians and senior level positions not being passed on to the next wave of people, there is a progression of culture that isn’t being allowed to move on to the next generation.

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        It’s definitely rotting, I can see that myself. Television and cinema in particular has just decayed. I think part of the reason voices in TV shows are so covered by outside noise is that the script is bad.

        This kind of government and the people who follow it are t creative, lack intelligence and curiosity and will destroy all the really good entertainment the US used to stand alone for.