Washington – The Senate will vote on Monday about whether the former wrestling executive confirms Linda McMahon As head of Education of the Nation, a role that would place it on an department that President Donald Trump has vilified and promised to dismantle.
McMahon would face competitive tasks to liquidate the Department of Education while increasing efforts to achieve Trump’s agenda. The Republican president has already signed radical orders to free the United States schools of Diversity programs and accommodation for Transgender students While also calls for expanding School choice programs.
At the same time, Trump has promised to close the department and said he wants McMahon “to run out of work.”
A multimillionaire and former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, McMahon, 76, is an unconventional choice For paper. A year passed at the Connecticut State Education Board and is a long time administrator at the University of the Heart Sacred, but otherwise it has little traditional educational leadership.
McMahon’s supporters see her as An expert executive who will reform an department that Republicans say that it has not been able to improve US education. Oppositors say that it is not qualified and fears that students feel their budget cuts throughout the country.
In Your confirmation audienceMcMahon distanced himself from Trump’s rhetoric. She said the objective is to make the Department of Education “operate more efficiently,” not to differ the programs.
She acknowledged that only Congress has the power to close the department, and promised to preserve the money of Title I for low -income schools, Pell subsidies for low -income university students, and The forgiveness of the public service loan program. However, he suggested that some operations could move to other departments, saying that health and human services could be more appropriate to enforce Disability rights laws.
Weeks before the McMahon confirmation hearing, the White House was considering an executive order that would lead the Secretary of Education to reduce the agency as much as it is legally possible while asking Congress to close it completely. Some of McMahon’s allies pressed to the White House to maintain the order until after their confirmation to avoid a possible violent reaction.
Created by Congress in 1979, the Department of Education main role It is paying money to schools and schools in the nation. Send billions of dollars a year to the K-12 school and supervises a federal $ 1.6 billion student loan briefcase.
Trump argues that the department has been surpassed by liberals that press their ideology in the United States schools. During his campaign, he promised to close it and give his authority to the States.
Schools and states already exercise significantly greater authority on education than the Federal Government, which is prevented from influencing the curriculum. Federal money represents approximately 14% of public school budgets.
The Trump administration has already begun to review much of the department’s work.
The Department of Government Efficiency of Trump Musk advisor has reduced dozens of contracts It was ruled out as “awakened” and wasteful. He spent the Institute of Education Sciences, which collects data on the academic progress of the Nation, and the administration has dismissed or suspended dozens of employees.
Some of the cuts have stopped the work ordered according to the Federal Law. At his audience, McMahon said the agency will spend money directed by Congress, and that she played Doge’s cuts as simply an audit.
McMahon is a Trump ally for a long time that WWE left in 2009 to launch a political career, which runs without success twice for the United States Senate. She has given millions of dollars to Trump campaigns and has served as leader of the administration of small businesses during her first mandate.
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