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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Linda McMahon as acquisition secretary, CNN reported connected Tuesday, citing 4 sources acquainted with the matter, putting the erstwhile pro-wrestling mogul astatine the helm of a section Trump has projected abolishing.
McMahon, who had been successful the moving for commerce secretary, headed up the Small Business Administration successful Trump's archetypal medication and was a large donor and aboriginal protagonist of the Republican president-elect erstwhile helium archetypal ran for the White House astir a decennary ago.
The co-founder and erstwhile CEO of the WWE nonrecreational wrestling franchise, she resigned from the SBA successful 2019 to pb the pro-Trump spending radical America First Action. She besides chairs the America First Policy Institute, a Trump-friendly deliberation tank.
Trump tapped her to co-lead a modulation squad formed to assistance vet unit and draught argumentation up of the Nov. 5 election.
McMahon had been successful the premix to caput the Commerce Department, but Trump connected Tuesday alternatively chose her modulation squad co-leader - Cantor Fitzgerald Chief Executive Howard Lutnick - for that post. Now she volition pb an bureau Trump said connected the run way that he would abolish, though helium apt lacks authorization to bash it without legislature approval.
