Trump administration plans to save $455 million by cutting Labor Department contracts, grants, and office leases will cost American workers and reduce efficiency, former agency officials say.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency aims to cancel grants from the DOL’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs for a savings of about $237 million. The subagency works to improve labor rights oversees.
It also seeks to shutter 87 DOL offices nationwide to save an estimated $23 million and terminate at least 96 agency contracts for trainings, software, and other services worth about $192 million, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of the ...