Trump picks business executive Linda McMahon to lead the Education Department

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : She was selected by Trump to lead the SBA during his first presidency.
64% : In a statement on Truth Social, Trump said, as secretary of education, McMahon "will fight tirelessly to expand 'Choice' to every State in America, and empower parents to make the best Education decisions for their families."While McMahon has served on Trump's cabinet before, her experience working with public schools has been limited.
56% : She's a longtime backer of the president-elect, and donated more than $7 million to two super-PACs that supported Trump in his first campaign for president, according to Open Secrets, a nonprofit that tracks campaign finance.
53% : For example: The major K-12 funding streams the department administers - including billions of Title I dollars to public schools in low-wealth communities - were created by Congress well before the department even existed.
51% : In an interview on X, Trump told Elon Musk that, if elected, "I want to close up the Department of Education, move education back to the states.
49% : She appeared at the Republican National Convention earlier this year, and spoke emotionally about her first time working with Trump, saying, "Donald Trump is not only a fighter, ladies and gentlemen.
49% : The courts have so far been skeptical of Biden's efforts to broadly cancel student debt without Congressional approval.
46% : The Biden-Harris administration expanded protections against sex discrimination in schools to include sexual orientation and gender identity, a move cheered by advocates for gay and transgender students.
33% : Now, Trump seems likely to roll back Biden's expansion of Title IX, just as he did Obama's.
18% : McMahon's nomination comes at a moment of great uncertainty for the U.S. Department of Education, with much of President Joe Biden's student loan agenda still tied up in legal challenges and with Trump making repeated threats to close the department entirely.

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