Linda McMahon’s consideration to run the Ministry of Education (DOD) goes to a full Senate After the nominated Trump had gone into a heavyweight decision on Thursday.
McMahon testified for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (Help) Commission during its confirmation state last week, where it was grilled on recent cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), possibly dismantling the Doed and title IX and title IX.
“We need a strong leader at the department that will get our education system back on track,” said Senator Bill Cassidy, R-la. “Mrs. McMahon is the partner who needs this committee.”
On Thursday, the committee voted to promote the appointment of McMahon for Educational secretary To a complete senate voice.
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)
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., In contrast to her nomination during the vote on Thursday.
‘I personally like her. I respect the work she did when building a large and successful company. But I think that the most important point that must be made at this specific point in history is that it really does not matter who the secretary of education or the Secretary of Labor is because those people will not call the shots, “said Sanders , focused on President Donald Trump during his comments.
The nomination of McMahon now goes to the Senate floor where the entire room will vote over its nomination. At the moment the floor voice is not planned.
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Before entering the political stage, McMahon worked as CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which she was co-founder with her husband, Vince McMahon.
Trump has said that he wants to close the Ministry of Education ‘immediately’. (AP)
During the first term of Trump, Linda McMahon also served as manager of the Small Business Administration (SBA) before he was resigning in 2019 to ‘return to the private sector’.
McMahon is now taken into account to lead the education department, which Trump said He wants to close ‘immediately’.
“It’s a big job,” Trump 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 give more per student than any other country in the world, but we are ranked Nr 40. “
The president said that, if confirmed, he wants McMahon ‘to take himself out of a job’.
Linda McMahon, former manager of the US Small Business Administration and the nominee of the American Education Secretary for the US President-Elect Donald Trump, Center, arrives for a meeting at Capitol Hill. (Valerie Pelsch/Bloomberg)
The Education Department has been among the national spotlights in recent weeks, because DOGE, the department led by Elon Musk to reduce federal costs, has reduced hundreds of millions of expenditures for the Dei programs that are financed by Doed.
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On Friday Doge announced That in just 48 hours the 70 dei training fairs within the department ended, which amounted to a total of more than $ 370 million.
