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Linda McMahon, President Trump’s prime for Education secretary, passed the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee connected Thursday morning, sending her confirmation to the afloat Senate.
The HELP sheet voted 12-11 on enactment lines to o.k. McMahon and nonstop her information to its last hurdle.
She is astir definite to beryllium confirmed, arsenic nary Republicans person made immoderate nationalist objections to her nomination, and much arguable Trump picks who primitively drew pushback person gone connected to wide the precocious chamber.
In her mostly civilian confirmation proceeding a week ago, McMahon did not shy distant from her content that the Education Department should beryllium unopen down but pledged the Trump medication is not looking to chopped backing from schools appropriated by Congress. She and different Republicans person said that the department's captious functions should beryllium moved to different national agencies.
“Why bash you deliberation that a section that is focused and that truly is dealing with children, whether it’s civilian rights, disabilities … Why bash you deliberation that it is amended to instrumentality the functions of dealing with children with disabilities successful a immense section that volition not person the aforesaid priority?” Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) asked soon aft McMahon said she could spot programs for students with disabilities going backmost to the Department of Health and Human Services.
“The bottommost enactment is due to the fact that it’s not working,” McMahon responded. “The Department of Education was acceptable up successful 1980, and since that clip we person spent astir a trillion dollars and we person watched our show scores proceed to spell down.”
If confirmed, McMahon volition beryllium starring an bureau that has already chopped much than a cardinal dollars of backing and has enactment dozens of employees connected administrative permission since Trump took office.
