The Office of Federal Student Aid is moving to a Department of Treasury building on K Street where IRS staff also work.
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The Office of Federal Student Aid and some of its staff are scheduled to begin vacating their current space in the Department of Education’s Lyndon B. Johnson Building on Friday. But rather than move into the old USAID building, as the Trump administration originally announced in March, FSA will now transfer to a Department of Treasury building on Washington’s symbolic K Street, according to an email obtained by Inside Higher Ed.
Other offices within ED are still expected to move to the former USAID building, though the dates of their transfer have not been announced and legislation approving the move still needs the Senate to sign off.
The FSA staff who have been instructed to move out this week won’t settle into the Treasury building, along with staff from the Internal Revenue Service, until Aug. 17. Until then, they are expected to work remotely—a practice the second Trump administration has largely opposed. A second wave of staff will arrive at K Street on Sept. 8, but it’s unclear when they will leave LBJ and whether they will spend any time working remotely.
