‘Clap-Outs’ of the Department of Emotional Education celebrates federal deceased employees

Dozens of emotional employees of the Department of Education participated in a final “applause” in Washington, DC, after losing jobs amid the restructuring of the Trump administration agency.

The Administration cut about 50% of the department’s workforce as part of President Donald Trump and the strategy of the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to abolish the department and send educational decisions to the United States.

The officials who leave, who have been dismissed, retired or voluntarily bought, have been given about 30 minutes to recover their belongings this week, before leaving the building to colleagues who were shouting “Thank you!” Out of the offices in Washington, DC

The last Chief of Education, former Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, visited his former office to celebrate employees affected by the shaking of the workforce.

Applaud, strengthen the hand and encourage them, Cardona told public officials: “Thank you for your service.”

“These public servants who are going out at this time deserve thanks. They deserve respect. They have worked hard, not only during the time I served as secretary, but before that,” Cardona said, with simple clothes, to journalists in a brief statement outside the agency’s headquarters.

“I am here, for the staff here, to say thank you,” he added.

Dinneen Ripley shown Cardona’s hand and told her that all her transport division was eliminated. Ripley has worked in the department for more than 30 years and said he is now retiring early.

“He feels like a death,” Ripley told ABC News. “He feels like a kind of divorce, he feels heartbreaking.”

Despite the massive review and almost 2,000 lost employees, McMahon has emphasized that the Department of Education will continue to manage their legal functions in which students of disadvantaged environments trust, including subsidies, formula funds and loans.

“The president made clear today that none of the funds will stop for these [programs]”,” McMahon told ABC News senior political correspondent, Rachel Scott, after the signing of Trump’s executive order last week, which ordered McMahon to use all the necessary steps allowed under the law to abolish the agency that has been used to lead.

“I think it is his hope that even more funds can go to the United States. There will be more opportunities for it. And, you know, he means what he says. And, therefore, there will be no death or reduction of funds,” he added.

A “taken” dream job

Washington, DC, the native of Leondra Richardson and a multitude of emotional colleagues throughout the department left the agency headquarters almost last disappeared on Friday.

“It was a dream job,” Richardson told ABC News. “And that dream was taken from me by the new administration.”

Richardson said his entire office, the office of the data director, was bent earlier this month by the “force reduction” implemented on March 11.

Sydney Leiher, a public career public servant, said she felt forced and does not know what she is still for her. After leaving with their belongings, including a beach volleyball and the sack of the merchant Joe, Leiher emphasized that the reforms are not only unjustified but also unpopular.

“It’s definitely emotional,” Leiher said, containing tears. “I feel bad for all people in the main information office that have to gather all our laptops and equipment, as they do not want to do this either.

“It is a really sad day. But seeing the support here from all other personnel from the department of ED and then also, such as other federal agencies and then the public simply shows me that, as, people do not want this, and this is not popular, and this should not be happening,” Leiher added.

Richardson and Leiher worked in the same division, the Ocdo, which was closed. Without the office, Richardson said that there will almost be no one at the federal level to collect data to show students’ improvements or delays.

The Trump administration has affirmed that it is making cuts to free the government of bureaucratic swelling, but Richardson told ABC News that his work was not based on policies or bureaucratic. Leiher, an analyst who worked in artificial intelligence automatic learning, told ABC News that he took this work after returning from the peace body. He added that civil service work should not be about politics.

“I believe in public service,” said Leiher. “I believe in a non -partisan civil service. We are important, we import.”

Meanwhile, the officials who leave such as Dr. Jason Cottrell, Data Coordinator in the Office of Postal Education, the largest subsidy division in the department, said that students are being endangered as the Department of Education decreases.

“The students of our nation will suffer,” said Cottrell. “I think of doctoral students who, you know, are trying to investigate cancer or, you know, learn or whatever, and without the funds to support them, they will be difficult for them to succeed without those funds, and we will not get that knowledge we need.”

The farewell ceremony in the department occurs when the “applause” will continue throughout the country next week in regional offices in places such as Cleveland, Dallas and San Francisco. But these moments arrived especially close to Casa for Richardson, who detailed how he exceeded a teenage pregnancy while growing east of the river in the southeast quadrant of the city.

She said she is very close but very “far” from the federal government.

“I hate not being a voice or inspiration for young girls who grew up in southeastern DC that I wanted to inspire,” Richardson said, adding that “I wanted to give the opportunity to demonstrate that there is another way and you can advance.”

“You can have a great impact and a big difference in the country where we,” he said.

Alex Ederson from ABC News contributed to this report