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.

Since President Trump took office, staffing at the Education Department has been cut in half, and he has been mulling an executive order to close the agency.