Co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and former administration of the Small Business Administration, Linda McMahon, has now been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 13th Secretary of Education. The confirmation vote was held on Monday with the tally being 51-45 along party lines.
President Donald Trump has given McMahon a two-part mandate for her service in this position. The first part of her mission is to drastically reduce federal involvement in education. The second part is to get rid of what the president has described as left-wing influence in schools.
While she was going through her confirmation hearing in February, McMahon talked about possibly restructuring or potentially shutting down the Department of Education. Yes, that’s right. She’s considering cutting her own position entirely, making it nonexistent. How crazy is that? A self-firing.
“She also called for using the department’s authority to combat antisemitism in higher education and to restrict transgender women from participating in female athletics and using associated facilities. The Department of Education has already experienced significant changes under the Trump administration,” Trending Politics News reported.
In her first remarks as secretary, McMahon made it clear she intends to follow through on Trump’s goal of reducing federal influence in education. “When I took the oath of office as Secretary of Education, I accepted responsibility for supporting over 100 million American children and college students,” McMahon said in a statement.
“President Trump nominated me to take the lead on one of his most momentous campaign promises: to send education back to the states and empower all parents to choose an excellent education for their children,” she added.
McMahon then provided details on a massive overhaul of the Department of Education, going on to say, “education ought not to be corrupted by political ideologies, special interests, and unjust discrimination.”
The wife of controversial wrestling visionary Vince McMahon also noted Trump’s executive orders that have placed critical race theory, gender ideology, and DEI initiatives in his sights as a huge part of her own mission.
“The Department of Education’s role in this new era of accountability is to restore the rightful role of state oversight in education and to end the overreach from Washington,” she remarked.
McMahon also addressed concerns about the department’s future, following speculation that Trump could seek to eliminate it altogether. “The Department of Education is not working as intended,” she wrote, citing poor student outcomes and bureaucratic inefficiencies. “Since its establishment in 1980, taxpayers have entrusted the department with over $1 trillion, yet student outcomes have consistently languished.”
“Parents are the primary decision-makers in their children’s education,” McMahon added. “Removing red tape and bureaucratic barriers will empower parents to make the best educational choices for their children. Teachers, too, will benefit from less micromanagement in the classroom—enabling them to get back to basics.”
The Department of Government Efficiency, headed up by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, has already made a ton of cuts to the research division of the agency, along with cutting grants that promote leftist ideology. The Office for Civil Rights has also started a number of probes to investigate practices like all-gender bathrooms in schools.
Trump has repeated expressed his desire to just get rid of the Department of Education completely, however, McMahon pointed out such a feat would require the approval of Congress. She then said that her main goal is to put education back in the hands of the individual states rather than just defund programs deemed to be essential
“Prior to her confirmation, McMahon served as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term and has been a financial backer of his presidential campaigns. Her professional experience in education includes earning a teaching credential, student-teaching decades ago, and serving briefly on the Connecticut State Board of Education beginning in 2009,” the report concluded.
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