Christine Faltz Grassman has worked in the Education Department since 2019. Grassman, who is blind, helps oversee a federal program that offers government contracting opportunities to blind vendors. Her two other co-workers who oversee the Randolph-Sheppard vending program at the Education Department also received “reduction-in-force,” or RIF, notices, she attested in a court declaration. AdvertisementThe Education Department did not answer questions from HuffPost about the layoffs. An automatic reply from the agency said its press team was furloughed during the shutdown, which the message blamed on Democrats.

Source: Huffington Post October 30, 2025 01:48 UTC