Trump -Education Nominated Linda McMahon says that closing Doe would ‘demand congression action’

Congress had to pass a law to shoot the Institute of Education (Doe) before it could be abolished, President Donald Trump’s nominees told the Department of Education (Doe) to a Senate Committee on Thursday.

Senator Bill Cassidy, R-LA., First, asked Linda McMahon if she agrees that Doe would need congressional approval to shut down completely.

“Certainly, President Trump understands that we want to work with Congress,” McMahon told the members of the Senate’s Health, Education, Work and Pensions. “We want to do it right. We want to make sure we are presenting a plan that I think our senators could get on board with and our congress could get on board it would have a better functioning Department of Education, but it requires defining congressional action.

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President Donald Trump hopes Linda McMahon will “get out of a job” if confirmed to lead the Department of Education. (Getty Images)

Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., McMahon asked about a similar question after a line of questions about her support for Pell Grants.

“Just let me once again get your feelings over this that if there is a movement to abolish the Institute of Education, should it go through the American Congress?” Asked Sanders.

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President Donald Trump is seen in this photo in March 2019 with Linda McMahon, who worked in his first administration in the Small Business Administration. (Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

McMahon replied, “Yes, it’s set up by the American Congress and we work with Congress. It clearly can’t be closed without it.”

Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, asked McMahon about Main’s Trio programs, helping the first generation of university students from families without experience with higher education. Collins questioned how these programs could be maintained if the Institute of Education was “Abolish (ED)” or “significantly reorganized.”

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“These different things, especially the trio program, both we agreed, were just affected by a terrible blow just by regulatory action, as some of the students who applied for, their applications were simply rejected because of distance in a form .

“If I am confirmed to be able to come in and evaluate programs, how they can have the best possible supervision, how we can really take the bureaucracy out of education,” she said.

McMahon, nominated to lead the education department, enters a role that Trump has suggested he seeks to eliminate. Trump recently stated that if McMahon is confirmed, he wants her to “get out of a job.”

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President Donald Trump promised on the campaign track to eliminate the Ministry of Education and bring power back to the states. (Getty Images)

At the forefront of McMahon’s confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Trump repeated his intention to close the department and called for it to be closed immediately “.

“It’s a big con -job,” Trump said. “They ranked the best countries in the world. We are ranked No. 40, but we are ranked No. 1 in a department: Cost per student. So we use more per student than any other country in the world but we are ranked as No. 40. “