“This wasn’t about cutting the budget. It was about cutting the brakes.”
In April, a whistleblower from the Department of Education described her last day. She walked past two shuttered offices and a whiteboard that still read “Audit Prep, May 2024.” She wasn’t replaced. Her role—tracking fraudulent for-profit colleges—no longer existed.
“I just kept thinking: no one is stopping this.”
And even with Musk gone, no one has.