The Trump administration announced it will downsize the U.S. Department of Education’s physical footprint by leaving its Lyndon B. Johnson building headquarters and moving into a nearby location formerly occupied by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The Department of Energy will take over the LBJ building. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said the move beginning this summer would save $4.8 million in rent, citing a large amount of unused space. The administration has already cut Education Department staffing nearly in half and is shifting program management arrangements across agencies. For university leaders, the operational changes signal an extended period of federal reorganization that may affect compliance guidance, enforcement timing, and administrative processing for aid and institutional reporting.