The nomination of Linda McMahon, the former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) CEO chosen by President Donald Trump for the Ministry of Educationgoes to a final vote of the Senate after ending the final procedural obstacle of the confirmation process.
On Thursday afternoon, the Chamber brought a mood from the cloture that the nomination of McMahon to a vote on the last floor advanced to decide on her confirmation.
Trump tapped McMahon to serve as head of the educational department, which he said he wants to close ‘immediately’.
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Linda McMahon, the candidate of President Donald Trump for the Secretary of Education, arrives for a hearing of the Health Committee for Health, Education and Work for her nomination, Thursday 13 February 2025 in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin)
Trump has also said that he wants McMahon ‘to’ get himself out of a job ‘.
“It’s a big job,” the president said the day before the McMahon confirmation hearing. “They rank the top countries in the world. We are ranked at number 40, but we are number 1 in one department: costs per student. So we issue more per student than any other country in the world, but we are ranked no. 40.”
President Donald Trump shakes his hand with Linda McMahon, the departing manager of the Small Business Administration, while she is sitting next to him after announcing her resignation, on the Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, March 29, 2019. (Joshua Roberts)
McMahon testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (Help) Committee in February and pointed her comments on the idea that “education is the issue That determines our national success and prepares American employees to win the future, “according to a fragment of her Opening commercialFirst shared with Fox News Digital.
The confirmation hearing was characterized by demonstrators, discussions about the participation of biological men in women’s sports and control over recent cuts on the expenditure proposed by the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), the newly formed cost -saving department led by Elon Musk.
Linda McMahon, former manager of the Small Business Administration and Trump Education Secretary SOMINEE, Center, arrives for a meeting at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Valerie Pelsch/Bloomberg)
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McMahon was co-founder of WWE with her husband, Vince McMahon, before he served as manager of the Small Business Administration (SBA) until 2019, when she stepped to “return to the private sector”.
