Linda McMahon, former administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, speaks at the America First Policy Institute’s America First Agenda Summit in Washington, DC, United States, Monday, July 25, 2022.
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President-elect Donald Trump On Tuesday, Linda McMahon, a former WWE executive who served in Trump’s first administration, was named as his choice to lead the Department of Education.
If she’s confirmed by the Senate, McMahon will oversee a department Trump says Plan to “get rid of” As it currently exists and allows each state to “handle education” individually.
“As Secretary of Education, Linda will fight tirelessly to expand ‘choice’ to every state in America and empower parents to make the best educational decisions for their families,” Trump said. said in a statement Describing McMahon as a “strong advocate for parents’ rights.”
McMahon is a co-chair of Trump’s presidential transition team. During her first term as president, she served as administrator of the Small Business Administration. Step down In 2019, he resigned from his cabinet-level position to lead the pro-Trump America First Action super PAC.
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Before joining the first Trump administration, McMahon served on the Connecticut State Board of Education in 2009 before resigning in 2010 and 2012 to unsuccessfully run for the state’s U.S. Senate seat.
CNN first reported McMahon was selected by Trump as education secretary.
McMahon One of Trump’s largest donors During the 2024 campaign, he donated more than $20 million to the Make America Great Again Inc. super PAC and $937,800 to his campaign and affiliated joint fundraising committees.
McMahon, 76, marries former World Wrestling Entertainment executive Vince McMahon.
According to statistics, the Department of Education has a budget of $241.6 billion and is staffed by approximately 13,000 staff data From the Office of Personnel Management.
Trump said he plans to sign an executive order stripping federal funding of “any school that imposes critical race theory, trans insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content on our children.”
McMahon criticized the diversity, equity and inclusion program, writing in an article Op-ed published by Fox News This year, DEI provisions are “not relevant to training skilled workers” and such policies “increase the cost and administrative burden of all apprenticeship programs.”
On Tuesday, McMahon joined Trump and Elon Musk, who was named the new “co-chairman.”government efficiency department,”exist SpaceX starship launch In Texas.
McMahon is chairman of the board of directors of the conservative think tank America First Policy Institute she initiated with other former Trump administration officials 2021. Doug Collins Georgia Secretary of Veterans Affairs and former Rep. Lizeldin New York State leads the Environmental Protection Agency.
McMahon is also the latest cabinet member appointed by the Trump transition team. Earlier Tuesday, he named Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard RutnickAs his choice for commerce secretary, he co-chaired his transition with McMahon.
