WASHINGTON – So, remember when Trump promised to drain the swamp? Turns out, the swamp needs more little swamp creatures to function. The Department of Ed, supposedly on the chopping block, is now hiring like they're running a stimulus package. The irony is thicker than AOC's skull.

NPR (of all places) dropped the bombshell: the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA), the black hole where your student loan money goes to die, is adding roughly 380 new leeches to the payroll. This after they supposedly slashed half their staff last year. So, what, they realized they needed more bureaucrats to shuffle papers and justify their existence?

The FSA manages a cool $1.7 TRILLION in student loan debt. That's more than some countries' GDPs. They handle everything from spamming you with emails to making sure you can't escape your indentured servitude. According to leaked documents, they only have 731 full-time employees now, down from 1,440 before Trump took office. But don't worry, they need 334 more. Because paperwork.

Ellen Keast, some random mouthpiece for the Ed Dept., claims this doesn't contradict the plan to return education to the states. Sure, Jan. It's just temporary until the Deep State figures out how to bury all the evidence.

Rachel Gittleman, a former FSA employee and union boss (of course), says all these new job postings are just replacements for the ones they axed. So, basically, they fired people, realized they broke something, and now they're hiring back the same people to fix it. Brilliant.

And get this: they stopped reviewing the accuracy of loan servicers' records RIGHT BEFORE the layoffs. Coincidence? I think not. It's like they wanted the system to implode so they could justify more government intervention. Classic.

Secretary McMahon (remember her?) admitted they might have cut a "little too deep." No kidding, Sherlock. It's almost like dismantling a giant bureaucracy requires, you know, actual planning instead of just throwing a grenade into the room and hoping for the best.

They're even trying to pawn off some of the responsibilities to the Treasury Department. Because that's definitely going to solve the problem. Just move the deck chairs on the Titanic, folks.

So, what's the takeaway? The swamp is alive and well. The Deep State is laughing at us. And your student loans are probably never going away. But hey, at least some bureaucrats are getting jobs out of it. MAGA, amirite?

Maybe Elon should just buy the whole Education Department and fire everyone. Just a thought. We need more memes about this. Seriously, the cope is palpable. They thought they could drain it, they were wrong. Start the grill, order the steaks. We're so cooked.