One year after President Trump signed an executive order calling for the shuttering of the Education Department, the agency has taken its biggest step yet toward self-elimination.

A year after Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency allies purged hundreds of thousands of federal employees, the Trump administration is ramping up hiring -- a reversal that reflects a quiet retreat from one of the president's defining early priorities and marks a new phase in efforts to reshape the bureaucracy in his image.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the year since President Donald Trump's second inauguration, he's made sweeping policy changes, eliminated hundreds of government jobs, battled dozens of cases in courts and most recently, deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to major American cities in an effort to tackle immigration concerns he campaigned on.