Donald Trump has nominated former WWE CEO Linda McMahon, who used to placed on occasions like “Hell in a Cell” and “Wrestlemania,” to steer the Division of Schooling.
In a press launch Tuesday night time, Trump stated McMahon would lead efforts to “send Education BACK TO THE STATES,” a longtime aim of Republicans who’ve sought to forestall the division from reaching nationwide schooling objectives and priorities.
McMahon additionally beforehand served as the top of the Small Enterprise Administration throughout Trump’s first time period. As a part of Trump’s financial group, McMahon was a part of an administration that noticed the worst web job loss for the reason that information has been tracked. Small-business progress below McMahon additionally pales compared to the file below Joe Biden’s present administration, which just lately hit a file of 20 million small-business purposes.
McMahon follows within the custom of Betsy DeVos, who served as schooling secretary in Trump’s first administration: They’re each billionaire Republican donors and never figures with severe schooling backgrounds. McMahon did, nevertheless, resign from a state schooling place after it was revealed that she falsely claimed to have a level in schooling.
