The Senate voted Monday to confirm former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as the nation's education chief, a role that places her atop a department that President Trump has vilified and vowed to dismantle.
McMahon will face the competing tasks of winding down the Education Department while also escalating efforts to achieve Mr. Trump's agenda. Already the Republican president has signed sweeping orders to rid America's schools of diversity programs and accommodations for transgender students while also calling for expanded school choice programs.
At the same time, Mr. Trump has promised to shut down the department and said he wants McMahon "to put herself out of a job."
The Senate voted 51-45 to confirm McMahon.
A billionaire and former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, McMahon, 76, is an unconventional pick for the role. She spent a year on Connecticut's state board of education and is a longtime trustee at Sacred Heart University but otherwise has little traditional education leadership.
McMahon's supporters see her as a skilled executive who will reform a department that Republicans say has failed to improve American education. Opponents say she's unqualified and fear her budget cuts will be felt by students nationwide.
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Laying the smackdown on education
Cody Rhodes has to FINISH THE FUCKING STORY DAMNIT. Only Cody can be the president
For the entirety of my life, there has never been a moment where the GOP wasn’t actively trying to make my country a worse place. Words cannot describe the hatred I have for the Republican Party, it is a cancer that is slowly destroying our nation. No matter what happens, I will always see them as the enemy of the American public. Call me a blind partisan, but the last decade has cemented that opinion in me. The damage it has done to this great nation is irredeemable in my eyes
I was sitting in on a class in a high school in a deep red area and the teacher mentioned her being Secretary of Education and the kids, many of whom were Trump supporters, were confused. Even the teacher, a conservative libertarian, thought it was a bit off.
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