Add in the number of employees who have left in recent weeks through buyout offers or were terminated because they were probationary employees, and the department’s staff is now roughly 50% of its previous 4,

The moves will cut the department from 4,133 workers when President Donald Trump began his second term in January to 2,183 workers. The significant cuts come as Trump is considering an executive order attempting to dismantle the agency and as all federal departments and agencies are preparing "large-scale reductions in force" ahead of a Thursday deadline ordered by Trump.

The Education Department plans to lay off more than 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the organization’s staff -- a prelude to President Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the agency

Rosie O'Donnell confirmed this week that she and her daughter moved to Ireland in January, just five days before President Trump's inauguration.