Trump chooses wrestling director as Minister of Education news

Choose the US President-elect Donald Trump Former President of the World Wrestling Entertainment Federation, Linda McMahon, to take over the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Education, which he has long ridiculed and pledged to abolish during his election campaign, and considered her a hacker. Before “extremists and Marxists”, he called for its complete dismantling.

Yesterday, Tuesday, Trump announced the selection of Linda McMahon for the position, and said in a press statement, “McMahon will use her decades of leadership experience and deep understanding of both education and business, to empower the next generation of American students and workers, and make America number one in education in the world.”

Trump praised his candidate, saying she was a “fierce advocate for parental rights,” pointing to the two years McMahon spent on the Connecticut State Board of Education in 2009 and 2010, and two terms of service on the Board of Trustees of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield in the same state.

Wrestler’s wife and Republican donor

Linda McMahon, 76, is a co-chair of Trump’s transition team and a major donor loyal to the Republican Party.

McMahon founded a sports entertainment company with her husband, Vince McMahon, and served as president and CEO of the company from 1980 to 2009. During this time, the company grew from a regional company in the Northeast to a large multinational corporation.

In 2009, McMahon left the World Wrestling Federation to run for a seat in the US Senate from Connecticut as a Republican candidate, but she lost to Democrat Richard Blumenthal.

In the 2010 elections, she was the Republican Party’s nominee for the other Senate seat in Connecticut in the 2012 race, but lost to Democrat Chris Murphy.

According to an Associated Press report, McMahon then focused on providing financial support to Republican candidates, and donated $6 million to help Trump after he secured the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 2016.

On December 7, 2016, Donald Trump, then president-elect, announced that he would nominate McMahon to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration. Indeed, during the first two years of Trump’s first term (2016-2020), she led the Small Business Administration.

In recent years, she chaired the board of directors of the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank that sought to lay the groundwork for a second Trump term.

The Washington Post reported that McMahon is not known for her work in education policy or practice, which has alarmed some conservatives in the education community, as they hope for a secretary with a track record of championing their cause.

The fate of the ministry

In its report on the US Department of Education, the Associated Press said that it annually distributes billions of dollars in federal funds annually to colleges and schools, manages the federal student loan portfolio, and plays an important regulatory role in services provided to students, ranging from those with disabilities to low-income children. And the homeless.

She explained that the Department of Education manages about $1.5 trillion in student loan debt for more than 40 million borrowers. It also oversees Pell Grants, which provide aid to low-income students, and administers the application for free federal student aid, which universities use to allocate financial aid.

The agency said federal education money “is a key component of Trump’s plans for colleges and schools.” Adding that Trump has previously pledged to cut federal funds to schools and colleges that he said “promote transphobia and other inappropriate racist, sexist, or political content.”

Trump criticizes the federal Department of Education, which was established in 1979 under the president Jimmy Carteras “an example of unnecessary government control.”

In his recent election campaign, Trump confirmed that he would work to abolish the federal Ministry of Education, to allow the states to manage education, which are aware of the peculiarities of their society.

The Trump campaign developed a plan that includes allowing prayer in public schools, expanding parental rights to education, “patriotism” as the focus of education, and focusing on “the American way of life.”

American experts and lawmakers warn that closing the ministry may face major obstacles, especially given its primary role in financing education and managing student loans.