The nomination of Linda McMahon, the previous World Wrestling Leisure (WWE) CEO picked by President Donald Trump to go the Division of Schooling, will head to a last Senate vote after passing the ultimate procedural hurdle of the affirmation course of.
The chamber handed a cloture vote on Thursday afternoon that superior McMahon’s nomination to a last flooring vote to determine on her affirmation.
Trump tapped McMahon to function head of the Schooling Division, which he has stated he needs to shut “instantly.”Â
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Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Schooling, arrives for a listening to of the Well being, Schooling, and Labor Committee on her nomination, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin)
Trump has additionally stated he needs McMahon to “put herself out of a job.”
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“It’s a giant con job,” the president stated the day earlier than McMahon’s affirmation listening to. “They ranked the highest nations on the planet. We’re ranked No. 40, however we’re ranked No. 1 in a single division: value per pupil. So, we spend extra per pupil than another nation on the planet, however we’re ranked No. 40.”
President Donald Trump shakes palms with Linda McMahon, the outgoing Administrator of the Small Enterprise Administration, as she sits beside him after asserting her resignation, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Seashore, Florida, March 29, 2019. (Joshua Roberts)
McMahon testified earlier than the Senate Well being, Schooling, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee in February, focusing her remarks on the concept “schooling is the difficulty that determines our nationwide success and prepares American employees to win the long run,” in keeping with an excerpt of her opening remarks, shared first with Fox Information Digital.
The affirmation listening to was marked by protesters, discussions on the participation of organic males in girls’s sports activities, and scrutiny over current spending cuts proposed by the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), the newly shaped cost-cutting division led by Elon Musk.
Linda McMahon, former administrator of the Small Enterprise Administration and Trump Schooling secretary nominee, middle, arrives for a gathering on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg)
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McMahon co-founded WWE together with her husband, Vince McMahon, earlier than serving as administrator of the Small Enterprise Administration (SBA) till 2019, when she stepped right down to “return to the non-public sector.”Â
