President Donald Trump, in the first month-and-a-half of his second term, has issued a flurry of executive orders, frozen or terminated federal spending in unprecedented ways, and empowered the world’s richest man to pursue a sweeping and fast-moving campaign of disruption and downsizing across the federal government.

Staff at the Department of Education have been told to leave the agency’s headquarters by 6 p.m. Tuesday and that all department offices across the country will be closed Wednesday, with no reason or justification except “security reasons.

The Trump administration has hit the ground running with significant changes to education policy since the January 20 inauguration. Just seven weeks into the new term, the Department of Education recently confirmed Secretary Linda McMahon.

One of President Donald Trump’s biggest targets in his second term has been the Education Department, a federal agency established in 1979 that oversees the enforcement of federal law in schools. He’s called the department “a big con job,