Washington (AP) – The Senate votes on Monday whether the former wrestling -executive Linda McMahon is to be confirmed as the nation’s educational manager, a role that she would put on a department that President Donald Trump has disparaged and vowed.
McMahon would be exposed to the competing tasks of the department for educational department and at the same time escalate the efforts to achieve Trump’s agenda. The Republican President has already signed comprehensive orders to free the programs for diversity schools and accommodation for transgender students in the America and at the same time request expanded programs for school selection.
At the same time, Trump promised to close the department and said that he wants McMahon “get out of a job”.
McMahon, 76, a billionaire and former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, McMahon, is an unconventional choice for the role. She spent a year in the State Board of Education from Connecticut and is a long -time trustee at Sacred Heart University, but otherwise has little customary educational management.
McMahon’s supporters see them as a qualified manager who will reform a department that the Republicans say that they could not improve American education. Opponents say that she is unreservedly and fear that her budget cuts of students can be felt nationwide.
At her hearing in her confirmation, McMahon distanced himself from Trump’s shiny rhetoric. She said the goal was to “operate the educational department more efficiently”, not to remove programs.
She admitted that only the congress has the authority to close the department, and she promised to receive title I money for schools with low income, pell grants for students with low income and forgiveness for public service loans. However, she suggested that some operations could switch to other departments and said that health and human services could be better suited for enforcing laws for disability rights.
Weeks before the hearing of McMahon, the White House considered an executive order that would cause the education secretary to shorten the agency as far as possible and ask the congress to close it completely. Some of the McMahon allies urged the White House to keep the order until after their confirmation in order to avoid a potential counter reaction.
The main task of the educational department created in 1979 by the Congress is to extend money to the schools and universities of the country. It sends billions of dollars a year to the K-12 school and supervises $ 1.6 trillion federal loan sports folio.
Trump argues that the department has been overtaken by liberals that press its ideology in American schools. During his campaign, he swore to close it and to grant his states his authority.
Schools and states already have a significant authority about education than the Federal Government, which is excluded from the influence of the curriculum. Funding money accounts for around 14% of public school budgets.
The Trump government has already started revising a gigantic part of the department’s work.
The Department of State Efficiency of Trump Adviser Elon Musk has reduced dozens of contracts that they “woke up” and drained. The Institute for Educational Sciences, which collects data on the country’s academic progress, and the administration has released or suspended the evaluations of employees.
Some of the cuts have stopped works that are ordered according to the federal law. At her hearing, McMahon said that the agency would spend money that is led by the congress, and she put down DOGES cuts as only as an audit.
McMahon is a long -time Trump ally who left the WWE in 2009 to start a political career and run twice for the US Senate twice. She gave Trump’s campaigns millions of dollars and worked as head of the petite business administration during his first term.
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