McMahon did not provide much more information beyond what the administration had already publicized, noting that “not all of the programs have been put into the full budget of the president.”

Democrats pressed McMahon on the consequences of the administration’s decision to lay off nearly half of her department’s staff, the feasibility of her proposal to hand much of its responsibilities to...

A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.