{"id":108427,"date":"2025-01-08T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/what-are-linda-mcmahons-chances-to-be-education-secretary\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:04:08","slug":"what-are-linda-mcmahons-chances-to-be-education-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/what-are-linda-mcmahons-chances-to-be-education-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Linda McMahon\u2019s chances to be education secretary?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(WASHINGTON) — World Wresting Entertainment co-founder Linda McMahon has been getting high marks from her meetings with the Republican senators who could decide whether she’ll be the next secretary of education.<\/p>\n

McMahon has run a large government organization before — she led the Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019 in President-elect Donald Trump’s first term — but critics say she has little professional education experience beyond earning a teaching certificate from East Carolina University.<\/p>\n

Since then, McMahon has primarily focused her time as a WWE executive, serving on the boards of colleges and state education agencies, and as chair of the board for think tank America First Policy Institute.<\/p>\n

McMahon allies suggest her business experience will not only disrupt but also help reshape a federal agency that’s long been criticized by Republicans. As a confidant to the president-elect who co-chaired his transition, McMahon is uniquely positioned to carry out his promises to close the education department, restore power to parents, and inject choice in schools, they say.<\/p>\n

“Linda McMahon is a win for parents and will root out radical ideology and get DEI out of America’s education system,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn wrote in a post on X after their meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

McMahon said she will carry out Trump\u2019s platform if confirmed by the Senate. When asked if she would dismantle the Department of Education like Trump campaigned on in her new role, she told ABC News, \u201cIf I am secretary of education, I will certainly fall in with what the president’s policy is.\u201d However, it would take 60 votes in the Senate to dissolve the department, which is highly unlikely with just a 53-47 Republican majority.<\/p>\n

The slim majority may not be enough to create immediate changes at the department, but senators who talked to ABC News expect her to be the department\u2019s next leader.<\/p>\n

What are senators saying?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ultimately, McMahon\u2019s nomination rests with the 100 senators who will vote on whether to confirm Trump’s Cabinet picks. The Senate hasn\u2019t yet formally set a date for a confirmation hearing for McMahon, but she told ABC News she is looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

Like Trump\u2019s most vulnerable Cabinet nominees, McMahon has been making the rounds on Capitol Hill in advise and consent meetings with everyone from newly elected Senate Majority Leader John Thune to freshman Republican Sen. Jim Banks. The GOP senators McMahon has met with have signaled a smooth process ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe’s awesome,\u201d Oklahoma GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin told ABC News. \u201cI’m looking forward to getting her over to be the secretary of education. She’s going to do the reform that needs to be done there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mullin added, \u201cI think she’s going to get through pretty easy. She’s really good.\u201d<\/p>\n

McMahon first met with Mullin and most of his colleagues on the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP). This committee is expected to hold hearings for the nominees to lead the departments of Education, Labor and Health. Mullin explained that he and McMahon discussed reforming Washington, not outright dismantling agencies such as the DOE.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think all these federal agencies need to have a hard look at,\u201d Mullin said. \u201cThe American people were very clear about that in the election, they gave President Trump and they gave the Republicans a mandate that they want the government to start working for them and not working for a party.\u201d<\/p>\n

McMahon and her team have been marching through the Senate halls for weeks. The meetings typically last between 30 to 45 minutes. After his meeting, HELP Sen. Tommy Tuberville said he and McMahon \u201cspeak the same language\u201d on education issues.<\/p>\n

Tuberville, R-Ala., also stressed that McMahon is the right leader to execute Trump\u2019s goal of closing the education department, arguing states already have their own departments of education so Washington doesn\u2019t need one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve seen the downgrade of our curriculum, of the discipline, you know, between the students and the parents and the teachers,\u201d Tuberville said. \u201cWe need to be more of a family when it comes to education, instead of an individual agency. We need to make it more personal, and I think that she’ll have a great opportunity to do that. She knows a lot about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tuberville is one of five current or former GOP members on the HELP committee who told ABC News the closed-door meetings with McMahon have been going \u201cgreat.\u201d McMahon has not told ABC News if her meetings will include Democrats.<\/p>\n

HELP Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., told ABC News she wants to see full vetting of Trump\u2019s nominees including FBI background checks. Baldwin said she hopes McMahon is going to be a \u201cgood steward\u201d of the education department and looks forward to reviewing her case to be its next secretary.<\/p>\n

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., struck a different tone condemning Trump\u2019s nominees.<\/p>\n

\u201c[McMahon] definitely wouldn’t be my first choice or my second choice, or third choice, or fourth choice, or fifth choice, or sixth or seventh,\u201d Fetterman said, then added, \u201cBut I forgot they won, so, they can pick these kinds of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

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