The Education Department has begun transferring some higher-education functions to the Department of Labor under an administration plan to tie postsecondary programs more tightly to workforce outcomes. Officials described the change as part of a larger interagency talent strategy intended to streamline training and align programs with employer needs. The shift moves staff from the Higher Education Programs Division into Labor, reassigning responsibilities that historically sat inside Education. At the same time, the department announced an unexpected pause in involuntary collections of defaulted student loans—including administrative wage garnishment and Treasury offset—saying the suspension will allow implementation of new income-driven repayment reforms. Officials framed the pause as temporary and aimed at giving borrowers a chance to benefit from revised repayment rules scheduled to take effect later in the year. For campus leaders, those two moves create simultaneous operational and financial effects: reorganization of federal program oversight changes grant management relationships, while the repayment pause alters cash‑flow expectations and enforcement dynamics for defaulted borrower cohorts.