Linda McMahon enters the nomination ring as Trump’s promise to kill the Department of Ed throwing Shadow

Months after she was announced to be President Donald Trump’s election to lead the Institute of Education, Linda McMahon is on the hot seat of Capitol Hill on Thursday as she faces senators over the future of the agency, which the president has promised to kill.

The Senate’s Health, Education, Work and Pension Committee holds his hearing to Grill McMahon, a business woman with close ties to Trump who has no teaching experience.

Trump has repeatedly claimed that the Department of Education has been managed and has damaged education and called it a “con job” during a news conference Wednesday. The president is expected to sign an executive order that instructs McMahon to submit a proposal to reduce the department, and then the president said she should “get out of a job” even if such a case would require a congressional act.

Democratic senators have said they intend to investigate the nomination based on 76-year-old McMahon’s lack of experience in public education.

McMahon defended his nomination in positions on X and partly wrote: “I am obliged to work tirelessly to ensure that every student has access to a quality education.”

McMahon’s journey from wwe matriarch to doe -nominated

McMahon founded World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and is also the company’s former president and CEO.

Trump said he chose McMahon to be a “tough spokesman” for parents’ rights in education that will fight “tirelessly” to expand school choice and “spearhead” his efforts to send educational decisions back to the states, according to the president’s official nomination declaration. The president also praised McMahon’s leadership and “deep understanding” of both education and business.

McMahon’s personal financial wealth is unclear, but she reported to own assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars and which could potentially surpass $ 1 billion. The Trump Loyalist was co-chair of his presidential team and is a long time donor who has given tens of thousands of millions of dollars to support pro-trump-tufts.

McMahon worked earlier in the first Trump administration as head of Small Business Administration (SBA). She had previously submitted two failed bids for the US Senate when she ran against the current Senate Democrats Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy in 2010 and 2012 respectively. She is also chairman of the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) board, but will leave this position, If it is confirmed as US Education Secretary.

McMahon has advocates for apprenticeships and educational programs for workforce, school choices and parents’ rights. Although she is not currently a teacher, she received her teaching certification from East Carolina University and sat in the Connecticut State Board of Education before her first failed Senate’s commandment. She has also earned two stints on the board of directors at Connecticut’s Sacred Heart University, where she is currently a treasurer.

Trump’s educational agenda, McMahon’s scandals threw shadow over nomination

At an executive order signing event last week, President Trump said, “I said to Linda, ‘Linda, I hope you do a good job and put yourself out of a job.'”

“I want her to get out of a job,” Trump added.

However, the abolition of the agency can only be carried out if Congress adopts legislation to eliminate it. Experts say it is illegal to dismantle the department without a congressional permit, which would require 60 Senate votes in favor of it.

Meanwhile, McMahon’s year as wrestling director came with their share of alleged scandals, which has brought her experience with young people under control.

A trial of 2024 brought by five plaintiffs – John Do, who served as WWE -Ring -The crew when they were teenagers – accused her and her husband, Vince McMahon, of having a blind eye to sexual abuse of an advertiser and leaders in The company. If confirmed by the Senate, McMahon would be tasked with overseeing sexual mismatch studies in educational programs.

McMahons has denied the claims.

Laura Bevetti, Linda McMahon’s lawyer, told ABC News that the FBI was investigating the decades old accusations at the time and found no reason to further investigate them and call the trial “baseless.”

McMahon’s allies believe she will be an agent of change, a disruptive and the dismantling that the Department of Education needs. Skeptics also claimed that the federal agency spends too much on education without adequate academic results.

But many in the education community fear that if McMahon helps Trump abolish the agency, it could have a negative impact -income society.