Betsy DeVos is not shy about revealing her priorities. She must cut positions to downsize the Department, making way for tax cuts for the 1%.

Look where the buyouts are concentrated:

CIVIL RIGHTS OFFICE COULD TAKE BIGGEST HIT IN ED BUYOUTS: The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights could lose 45 employees because of early separation offers – a big hit to an office that many argue is understaffed to handle the number of complaints it receives each year. In fiscal 2017, the office was funded to employ 569 staff members, according to the department’s budget request from earlier this year.

– It would be the most of any division within the agency, according to a document obtained by POLITICO from a congressional office. Of the 255 voluntary offers made Nov. 1 to employees to separate or retire early, 45 people work in the civil rights office, the document says. The Trump administration’s budget proposal had called for cutting 46 positions from the office, which the administration said it would do through attrition.

– The office receives 10,000 complaints of discrimination annually, but has half of the staff it had in 1980, when it received fewer than 3,500 complaints, according to Education Department figures. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the ranking member of the HELP Committee, said in a statement Thursday she was “appalled” that Secretary Betsy DeVos “would use a lack of staffing and resources as an excuse to roll back civil rights investigations and protections, and then turn around and attempt to shrink these critical offices … I will continue to work to give the Department the resources it needs to better aid students and families, and I strongly urge Secretary DeVos to stop putting her ideological agenda above students and work with us.”

– An Education Department spokeswoman noted in a statement that the offers are voluntary and approved by the federal Office of Personnel Management. “Keep in mind, these positions can be backfilled as the workload demands,” said the spokeswoman, Liz Hill.