The candidate of the Minister of Education Linda McMahon is the next cabinet selection of President Trump, who faced a showdown with the legislators – and the first to “get himself out of his job”.
McMahon, whose hearing for confirmation is planned for Thursday at 10 a.m.Is questioned only a week after Trump by senators said he would like to apply executive action In order to eliminate the Ministry of Education and in the middle of media reports that he is preparing executive orders in order to weaken and reduce the Federal Authority and ask the congress to end it.
While you will probably also ask questions about your lack of education experience, a persistent lawsuit from your professional wrestling days and the implementation of instructions for gender and school selection, McMahon’s hearing could be dominated Future of the educational department.
The Republicans have not expressed any objections that have given her a clear way to confirm, but Democrats and other opponents of the former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) made their attack lines clear before hearing.
“McMahon’s nomination is really worrying for us and parents all over the country, because what we have heard from the parents are fully financed, and Linda McMahon has no success story to be a lawyer for education,” said Ailen Arreaza, Executive Director From Parentstogether.
Sen. Andy Kim (Dn.J.), member of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pension of the Senate, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter On McMahon Tueszens of questions that you are said to have prepared on Thursday to answer the department, the student loan system and the support of McMahon from Project 2025.
The senators expressed concerns that McMahon has little experience in education, apart from one year at the Connecticut State Board of Education and several years at the Sacred Heart University in Connecticut.
“They have a minimal track record on educational issues and noticeable little experience in terms of education policy,” the Democrats wrote.
“This lack of public recording means that the American people were not given the opportunity to evaluate their views on topics in connection with the core tasks of the education secretary,” she added.
McMahon, who served as head of the petite business administration in Trump’s first administration, was a surprise selection for those in the field of education in November.
Trump announced reporters that he spoke to McMahon about the closure of the Ministry of Education and, as he said, she should “get out of the job” when she is confirmed.
The complete elimination of the department would require an act of the congress, and the Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate have introduced legislative templates in this regard, but it is hard to imagine that a measure to secure the 60 votes to defeat a filibuster of the Senate ensures.
However, Trump said that he checked the executive that aimed at the agency and say media reports that he is watching those to either cut programs that are not written to the law or move them to other federal departments.
When McMahon was nominated, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Chairman of the Help Committee, said that he was agreed with President Trump’s explanation that we need someone who will concentrate on the choice of parents in raising children. “
“The experience of Linda McMahon, who heads the petite business administration, can obviously aid with the management of another agency. I look forward to meeting her, “said Cassidy, who will lead the hearing on Thursday.
Dealing with the chairman’s chairmanship with the proceedings is observed closely by the President and his allies. Cassidy, who voted against Trump after he was raised after 2021, is for re -election in 2026 and he has already pulled A Pro Maga main challenger.
The hill turned to Cassidy’s office to get further comments.
So far, McMahon has largely flown under the radar, especially compared to Trump’s controversial candidates such as Minister of Defense Wednesday confirmed.
However, at least part of your past will probably be addressed according to A The lawsuit was submitted In October against her and her husband Vince McMahon during her time WWE led. The suit claims that the McMahons knows about a ring boy who sexually abused ring boys but did nothing to stop him.
Her lawyer said the lawsuit was “full of bizarre lies, exaggerations and false representations regarding Linda McMahon”.
The presidents of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers as well as the democratic legislator, parents and students organize a rally in DC before McMahon’s hearing with the message “Protection of the pupils and public schools”.
Keri Rodrigues, President of the National Parents’ Union, said her group will be in Capitol this week when parents speak to the legislator and have sent facts to all 100 senators in which it would mean what it would mean if the Ministry of Education was abolished .
“I hear a lot about what you want to cut, what you want to destroy, what you want to reduce. I would like to hear a future -oriented vision for what American public education should look like, ”said Rodrigues. “I didn’t hear much of it. I complained a lot and whines about things that they don’t like, but I don’t hear from a practical alternative in relation to what they will do for American families. ”
“I hope that such a substance and such deep questions will be asked by Linda McMahon,” she added.
McMahon can also be asked to respond to decisions that the Ministry of Education has made as part of the incumbent secretary Denise Carter.
At the end of January there were dozens of agency employees placed in administrative leave According to Trump’s executive regulation, the diversity, justice and inclusion (Dei) banned into the federal government.
The union that represents the employees believes that after a DEI training in 2019, the employees were targeted, which took place during the first administration of Trump and was funded by the then Minister of Education.
And last week Congress Democrats appeared in the Ministry of Education after their application for an emergency meeting with the incumbent secretary in order to discuss the extensive federal cuts of Trump. The legislators were closed from the building When they arrived and not let it go.
“You block members of the congress at the entry into the Ministry of Education! Elon is embedded and not the people? Illegal, ”said Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), The Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who heads the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).
This week, Doge announced millions of dollars of contracts that Ministry of Education has ended.
“Tomorrow we will go under with parents from all over the country, meet with the Senate … and ask you to make sure that you ask the difficult questions so that we know where you are on these topics and we know where Linda McMahon and the administration are in these problems, ”said Rodrigues.
