The Senate, similar to the party, voted on Monday to confirm Linda McMahon as the next Minister of Education in the country, putting the former executive authority in support of senior officials in charge of the Trump administration agency.
A rich fans who served in the first Trump administration, and Mrs. McMahon has a little experience in education. The lack of direct knowledge has been framing as assets by the White House, which is looking to cancel the section you are now leading and as a flagrant discovery by its critics.
Mrs. McMahon, 76, I told the legislators during its confirmation process that it “sincerely“I agreed with” the mission “of President Trump to eliminate the Ministry of Education. During her hearing last month, I argued that most Americans did so as well, and that she was ready to achieve this.
But it seems that there is a great general opposition to get rid of the section.
Nearly two -thirds of the Americans said last week that they were The agency’s elimination is opposedAccording to the NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. In North Carolina, one of the seven battlefields stated that Mr. Trump invaded in November, a similar share, 63 percent, as they said they were Obtaining the agency’s cancellationAccording to the Meridith College poll last month.
The Ministry of Education was already a major goal for the aggressive government reform project supervised by Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and Trump’s main adviser. At least 60 employees It was suspended As part of the diversity efforts in the administration, the Mr. Musk team discussed the possibility Executive It would easily close the department.
On Friday, employees were granted in the department “”One -time offer“Up to 25,000 dollars, if they agree to retire or resign by the end of the day on Monday. The message, which Jacqueline Clay, the chief human capital official in the ministry, said that the offer was presented before” a very significant decrease in strength. “
Senator Bernie Sanders, a Fairmont Independent, who is gathering with Democrats and a better representative in the Senate Education Committee, said the administration provides “very important resources” for children in high poverty educational areas and those who are used to.
“We must make the Ministry of Education stronger and more efficient, not to dismantle it as Trump suggested,” Mr. Sanders said in a statement.
Of Trump’s first confirmation By the Senate, Mrs. McMahon is the sixth that the Democrats opposed unanimously. Others were the Higseth House, Minister of Defense; Tolsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence; Robert F. Kennedy Junior, Minister of Health; Russell T -Feon, Director of the White House budget; Heard Lutnik, Minister of Commerce.
The main role of the Ministry of Education was to send federal funds to public schools, management of the college’s financial aid and the management of federal student loans. The department follows the achievement of students, but it does not dictate what is taught in public schools. with About 4200 employees As of September, the agency’s workforce was smaller than 15 executive departments at the cabinet level.
Mrs. McMahon said that she will press for more local control over education programs and “American students from educational bureaucracy” by clicking on school selection programs.
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, the Republican President of the Education Committee, said that Mrs. McMahon would help simplify the department.
“We need a strong leader in the department that will bring our educational system back to the right track,” said Mr. Cassidy after the assertion vote. “Minister McMahon is the right person for this position.”
Mrs. McMahon obtained a teaching certificate, but she was never studied. She was a member of the Board of Trustees at SACRED Heart University, a private school in Connecticut with about 8,500 students. 16 years old. She and her husband, Vince McMahon, who was separated from him, donated millions of Catholic University, where The student rumors Bearing her name.
She also worked for about a year in the Education Council of Connecticut, although some of the state lawmakers questioned her experience in this position and said that she is running a wrestling company promoting violent and sexual images for children.
She pushed her nomination to the Ministry of Education’s administration to a new round of concerns about her experience, as critics said that she is not ready to move in the effects that Mr. Trump’s agenda may be politically charged in the country’s schools.
Mr. Trump told the correspondents last month that the Ministry of Education was a “great job” and that “I would like to close it immediately.” Mr. Musk said that the administration had completed 89 contracts worth $ 881 million in the agency.
In her confirmation session, Mrs. McMahon presented a more accurate version of potential changes. She said that the administration had “planned to” redirect “the administration while admitting that some of the agency’s largest programs will remain in effect. She also said that the basic programs, such as the first -address funds for low -income schools and give Pell to the poorest university students, will not be canceled.
She also agreed that the Congress law would be asked to cancel the section, which was It was created in 1979 To ensure equality of education, help local parents and communities to improve the quality of education and coordinate federal education programs.
The most likely goal of discounts was the federal funds for schools and colleges that challenge Mr. Trump’s orders that seek to prevent sexually transformed women from competing in women’s sports, and get rid of diversity, fairness and integration initiatives.
In response to a question at the hearing last week of Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat in Connecticut, Mrs. McMahon said that schools should allow events to celebrate the priest Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, but she was more cautious about the classroom that focused on black history.
“I am not completely sure and I would like to look at it more,” said Mrs. McMahon.
During the first period of Mr. Trump, Mrs. McMahon worked as head of small business administration to step down in 2019 to run Super Pac to support Mr. Trump. Super Pac, American First Action spent more than $ 185 million before Mr. Trump lost in 2020.
During the 2024 elections, Mrs. McMahon was among the largest shareholders in Mr. Trump’s campaign. She and her husband contributed more than 20 million dollars to the campaign to re -election Mr. Trump and her associated PACS Data collected by open secretsA government transparency group.
After Mr. Trump was voted outside his post in 2020, Mrs. McMahon became the head of the First Policy Institute of America, a conservative research reservoir that is increasing by the former Trump officials. It has also taken roles with other conservative policy organizations and Daily Caller, a conservative news site.
It is paid 18,400 dollars every three months by the Trump group of media and technology, where it is exit. She received thousands of shares in the company as compensation for its work. The group is the mother company of Mr. Trump’s social media platform, social truth.
Mrs. McMahon pledged to resign from these positions and strip them of Mr. Trump’s work if confirmed.
