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(NewsNation) — Linda McMahon volition spell successful beforehand of the Senate Committee connected Health, Education, Labor and Pensions to question support to pb the Department of Education — which President Donald Trump has said helium wants to abolish.
Closing the Department of Education is an contented Trump campaigned on successful the 2024 election, and helium has said it was infiltrated by "radicals, zealots and Marxists.”
“I told Linda, ‘Linda, I anticipation you bash a large occupation and enactment yourself retired of a job,’” Trump antecedently said, adding helium would similar to extremity the section done enforcement order, NewsNation spouse The Hill writes.
The Department of Education sends billions of dollars a twelvemonth to schools, manages a $1.6 trillion pupil indebtedness portfolio and enforces civilian rights in education. It would besides require an enactment of Congress to unopen down the department.
Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Andy Kim said successful a missive to McMahon this week that she'll beryllium asked if she supports Trump's plans, and what she volition bash to transportation them out, The Associated Press reported. According to the AP, this missive asks McMahon to perpetrate to preserving the department’s pupil indebtedness operations and civilian rights office, among different programs. It besides mentions her deficiency of acquisition successful the acquisition sphere.
Formerly the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, McMahon is besides apt to look questions implicit a lawsuit stating that she and her husband, Vince, ignored rampant maltreatment of alleged “ring boys" by ringside announcer Melvin Phillips Jr. successful the 1980s and 1990s.
The alleged assaults were intersexual successful nature, the suit alleges.
McMahon antecedently was the caput of the Small Business Administration during Trump's archetypal term.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
