https://www.nationalreview.com/news/linda-mcmahon-confirmed-as-secretary-of-education/
During her confirmation hearing, McMahon described the DOE as an agency ‘in decline’ and announced her intention to ‘invest in teachers not Washington bureaucrats.’
The Senate confirmed former Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration Linda McMahon to lead the Department of Education on Monday evening.
Once the World Wrestling Entertainment CEO, McMahon was confirmed 51 to 45, along party lines. President Donald Trump appointed her to the position hoping that she would “put herself out of a job,” he has said, and that McMahon “wholeheartedly” embraces his move to weaken the department’s influence.
“President Trump believes that the bureaucracy in Washington should be abolished so that we can return education to the states, where it belongs. I wholeheartedly support and agree with this mission,” the now-secretary said in a letter to Democrats on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
McMahon served on the Connecticut Board of Education for two years and was on the Board of Trustees at Sacred Heart University for more than 16 years. In a statement announcing McMahon’s nomination in November, Trump called McMahon a “fierce advocate for Parents’ Rights.”