The Trump order not on the same page with its workforce consolidation plan.

Plus, one way the Trump Administration could try to implement its consolidation plan without Congress' help.

Welcome to THURSDAYS THAT WORK, a mostly regular video series talking about big issues affecting the American workforce and the money that gets them to work.

Three weeks ago, the Trump Administration issued a series of orders aimed at shaping out its jobs policy, in part as a function of its continued war against the scary quadrangles of four-year colleges. There still is plenty to unpack, including this AI executive order directing the Labor Department to fund AI projects with discretionary workforce spending—something that seems out of sorts with its plan to consolidate and eliminate discretionary federal workforce spending.

In the video below, I unpack why this is weird and what could be happening. And behind the paywall, I talk about how I expect the Administration to move if Congress doesn’t bless its consolidation of workforce dollars.