The Department of Emotional Education ‘clapping’ to celebrate federal employees who have died

Division of Employee Department Employee Employees take part in the last “clap-out” in Washington, DC, after losing a job in the middle of restructuring of Trump administrative agents.

Administration cuts around 50% of departmental labor as part of President Donald Trump and the strategy of the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to eliminate the department and send educational decisions to the state.

Civil Servants who departed, who had been dismissed, retired or bought voluntarily, each had been given about 30 minutes to take their goods this week -before leaving the building to clap the arms that shouted “Thank you!” Outside the office in Washington, DC

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

Clamping, shaking hands and encouraging them, Cardona told Civil Servants, “Thank you for your service.”

“Civil servants who walk out now deserve to be thankful. They deserve to be respected. They have worked hard – not only as long as I serve as secretaries but before that,” Cardona, wearing ordinary clothes, told reporters in a brief statement outside the agency’s headquarters.

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

Deneen Ripley shook Cardona’s hand and told him that all transportation divisions were eliminated. Ripley has worked in a department for more than 30 years and said he was retiring early now.

“It feels like death,” Ripley told ABC News. “It feels like a bad divorce, it feels heartbreaking.”

Apart from the massive improvement and nearly 2,000 employees missing, McMahon has stressed the Department of Education will continue to manage the legal function that is relied on by students from disadvantaged backgrounds, including grants, formula funds and loans.

“The President clarifies today that no funds will stop for this [programs]”McMahon told ABC News Rachel Scott’s senior political correspondent after the signing of Trump’s executive command last week, which directed McMahon to use all the permitted steps under the law to eliminate the agency he had led to be led.

“I think it is his hope that more funds can go to America. There will be more opportunities for it. And, you know, he means what he says. So there will be no deforestation or reduction of funds,” he added.

Dream work “struck”

Washington, DC, a native of Leondra Richardson and the crowd of emotional colleagues in all departments left the agency’s head office which almost did not function for the last time Friday.

“That is a dream job,” Richardson told ABC News. “And the dream was struck by me by the new government.”

Richardson said that all his offices, the Head of Data Head Office, were folded earlier this month by the “Reduction of Strength” applied on March 11.

Sydney Leiher, a middle -level career public servant, said he felt forced out and did not know what would happen next to him. After going with his items, including beach volleyball and trader joe sack, Leiher emphasized that reforms were not only justified but also unpopular.

“This is really emotional,” Leiher said, holding back tears. “I feel bad for everyone in the main information office that must, such as, collecting all our laptops and equipment – like, they also don’t want to do this.

“This is only a very sad day. But seeing support here from all other ED department staff and then, like, other federal agents and then the public only makes it show that, like, people do not want this, and like, this is not popular, and this should not happen,” added Leiher.

Richardson and Leiher both worked in the same division, Ocdo, which was closed. Without an office, Richardson said that almost no one went at the federal level to collect data to show students’ improvement or delay.

Trump’s government has claimed that he made cutting to clean up the bloated bloated government, but Richardson told ABC News that IT work was not based on policies or bureaucracy. Leiher, an analyst who works in learning the artificial intelligence machine, told ABC News that he took this job after returning from the Peace Corps. He added that civil service work should not be about politics.

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

Meanwhile, departing from civil servants such as Dr. Jason Cottell, data coordinator at the post-middle school education office, the largest grant making division in the department, said he was sure students were dangerous because the Ministry of Education was reduced.

“Our nation students will suffer,” Cottrell said. “I think of a doctoral student who, you know, try to do research about cancer or, you know, learn or whatever it is, and without funds to support them, they will – it will be difficult for them to succeed without the funds, and we will not get the knowledge we need.”

The farewell ceremony in the department came when “clap-out” will continue throughout the country next week in regional offices in places such as Cleveland, Dallas and San Francisco. But at this time I was very close to the house for Richardson, who detailed how he overcome teenage pregnancy when he grew up to the east of the river in the southeast quadrant of the city.

He said it was very close but so “far” from the federal government.

“I hate me unable to be a voice or inspiration for young girls who grew up on the southeast DC that I want to inspire,” Richardson said, adding that he “wanted to give the opportunity to, you know, show that there are other ways and you can advance.”

“You can make a big impact and big differences in this country come from where we originated,” he said.

ABC News’ Alex Ederson contributed to this report