Title:Trump to propose merging Labor, Education departments, report says

The Trump administration is set to propose merging the Labor Department with the Education Department, according to reports.  (REUTERS, File)

根据报告，特朗普政府将提议将劳工部与教育部合并（REUTERS，File）。

The Trump administration will propose merging the Labor Department with the Education Department as part of a larger effort to reorganize the federal government, The Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday.

据《华尔街日报》周三晚间报道，特朗普政府将提议将劳工部与教育部合并，作为重组联邦政府的更大努力的一部分。

The formal announcement is planned for Thursday morning, but the Journal reports that any planned reorganization must be approved by Congress.

正式宣布计划于星期四上午进行，但《日刊》报告称，任何计划进行的改组均须经国会批准。

The reported proposal is a revival of long-held conservative ambitions dating back at least two decades. In the 1990s, Republican lawmakers proposed merging the Education and Labor departments with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The new agency would have been dubbed the Department of Education and Employment, but such plans never got off the ground.

据报道，该提案至少在20年后恢复了长期保守的野心，在1990年代，共和党议员提议将教育和劳动部门与平等就业机会委员会合并。这个新机构会被称为教育和就业部，但是这种计划从未落空。

According to the Journal, the Education Department is one of the smallest agencies of the federal government, with approximately 3,900 employees. The paper reports that its workforce has shrunk by 10 percent as the result of a hiring freeze instituted by President Trump soon after he took office.

据《日刊》报道，教育部是联邦政府中最小的机构之一，约有3,900名雇员。这份报告称，特朗普上任后不久就实行了雇佣冻结，其员工人数减少了10%。

The department was one of three government agencies Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry promised to eliminate during the 2012 campaign. The proposal was overshadowed when Perry, now the secretary of energy, forgot the name of one of the agencies during a televised debate.

共和党总统候选人佩里(Rick Perry)承诺在2012年的竞选中淘汰。当现任能源部长佩里(Perry)在电视辩论中忘记了某个机构的名称时，这项提议被蒙上阴影。

The Labor Department has a reported 15,000 employees and has a variety of responsibilities, including compiling employment statistics and enforcing federal wage laws.

劳工部有15,000名雇员，负有各种责任，包括汇编就业统计数据和执行联邦工资法。

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