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3 verified reports published on March 11, 2025.
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The throughline here is simple: Trump’s team keeps acting like disruption is a governing theory, not a governing burden. On March 11, that produced two of the administration’s favorite outcomes at once — a damaged public institution and a pile of messaging that only works if you never look at the bill.
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The Education Department said on March 11, 2025, that it had initiated a reduction in force affecting nearly 50% of its workforce. The staffing cut came on top of earlier buyouts and resignations and pushed the Trump administration’s effort to shrink the agency further.
The broader DOGE project stayed a source of legal and administrative trouble on March 11, with ongoing fights over access to sensitive federal information and the administration’s habit of running government through unofficial channels. The day reinforced a simple lesson: when you replace process with improvisation, you get lawsuits, injunctions, and a lot of very annoyed civil servants.
On March 11, Trump-world kept leaning on the idea that tariffs are a painless win for Americans, even though the policy is fundamentally a tax on imports and the political blowback was already building. The problem wasn’t just the policy itself; it was the administration’s insistence on treating basic economics like a branding exercise.