“Trump nominates former head of WWE promotion to be secretary of educationDonald Trump has chosen Linda McMahon, former head of WWE, to be secretary of education. McMahon already worked in the first Trump administration.”, — write on: unn.ua
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If confirmed by the Senate, McMahon will oversee the department, which Trump has said he plans to “get rid of” in its current form and allow each state to individually “deal with education.”
“As Secretary of Education, Linda will fight tirelessly to extend Choice to every state in America and empower parents to make the best education decisions for their families,” Trump said in a statement, describing McMahon as “a staunch advocate for parents’ rights.”
McMahon retweeted Trump’s message, which was distributed by his campaign, on X. Earlier in the day, she joined Trump and Elon Musk, who has been named co-head of the new “Ministry of Government Efficiency,” at the SpaceX Starship launch in Texas.
McMahon, 76, is the co-chair of Trump’s presidential transition team. She served as head of the Small Business Administration during his first presidency before stepping down from the Cabinet-level post in 2019 to lead the pro-Trump political action supercommittee America First Action.
Before she joined the first Trump administration, McMahon served on the Connecticut State Board of Education in 2009, before resigning to run in 2010 and 2012 for the state’s U.S. Senate seats, though those efforts were unsuccessful.
McMahon was one of Trump’s top donors during the 2024 campaign, contributing more than $20 million to political action supercommittee Make America Great Again Inc., as well as $937,800 to his campaign and related joint fundraising committees. She is married to former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon.
The U.S. Department of Education has a budget of $241.6 billion and about 13,000 employees, according to the Office of Personnel Policy.
Under the Biden administration, the Department of Education approved $175 billion in student loan debt relief. The administration also sought to expand civil rights protections for LGBTQ students with a new Title IX rule that expands the definition of sexual harassment in schools. The rule was blocked in several states that opposed the policy.
Trump said on the campaign trail that he would repeal Title IX protections for transgender students. He also said he plans to sign an executive order that would strip federal funding from “any school that places critical race theory, transgender bigotry, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on the shoulders of our children.”
McMahon has criticized diversity, equity and inclusion programs, writing in an article published by Fox News this year that the DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) provisions “have no relationship to the training of skilled workers” and that such policies “add costs and administrative burdens to everyone apprenticeship programs”.
McMahon is the chairman of the board of directors of the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank she launched with other former Trump administration officials in 2021. Trump has said he plans to nominate other people with ties to the organization, including former Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia to serve as veterans affairs secretary and former Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
McMahon is also the latest cabinet nominee from Trump’s transition team. Earlier on Tuesday, he named Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick, who is co-chairing his transition with McMahon, as his nominee for Commerce Secretary.
Who has Trump already chosen for his cabinet and who can apply for this position
According to Reuters, the list is as follows:
MARCO RUBIO, Secretary of State
MATT GOETZ, Attorney General
TULSE GABBARD, Director of National Intelligence
ROBERT F. KENNEDY, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services
PETE HAGSET, Secretary of State for Defence
LEE ZELDIN, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
MIKE WOLTZ, National Security Adviser
SUZIE WILES, Chief Administrative Officer
TOM HOMAN, the “border king”, will be responsible for the country’s borders
ELIZ STEFANIK, ambassador to the UN
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami, Heads of the Ministry of Government Efficiency
CHRISTIE NOEM, Secretary of Homeland Security
DOUG BURGUM, Minister of the Interior and “Energy Czar”
JOHN RATCLIFFE, Director of the CIA
HOWARD LUTNIK, Secretary of Commerce
KEVIN WORSH, potential Treasury Secretary
MARK ROWAN, would-be Treasury Secretary
BILL GAGERTY, would-be Treasury Secretary
SCOTT BESSENT, would-be Treasury Secretary
ROBERT LIGHTHEIZER, potential “trade czar” or Treasury Secretary
LINDA McMAGON, Minister for Education
KASH PATEL, a potential candidate for national security positions