Posted on 03/03/2025 7:58:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
March 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed billionaire and former World Wrestling Entertainment executive Linda McMahon as the secretary of Education, an agency President Donald Trump wants to abolish.
All but one member of the 22-member Cabinet has been confirmed with Lori Chavez-DeRemer the exception in the Labor Department.
The vote was 51-45 with all Democrats voting against and every Republican backing her. Two Republicans and two Democrats didn't vote.
Last month after Trump became president again, he told reporters in the Oval Office that he wants McMahon, 76, to "put herself out of a job" in the smallest federal agency with only 4,245 employees.
Only Congress has the power to formally eliminate a federal agency.
At her confirmation hearing on Feb. 13, she said: "We'd like to do this right," adding the agency "clearly could not be shut down without" Congress.
The plan is to shift much of the department's duties to the states.
The agency administers federal funding for K-12 schools, including through Title I for students in lower-income communities and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Schools have been forced to comply with the Trump administration's demands to halt diversity, equity and inclusion programs, which have been challenged in court. In addition, employees, like in other agencies, have been terminated or applied for a buyout.
McMahon backs school choice programs, which allow families to use public money to subsidize non-private schooling
She is a proponent of expanding Pell Grants but is pushing other options for students than college. But she wants to "build up careers, not college debt.
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Her nomination passed the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee on Feb. 20 along 12-11 party lines.
The hearings were interrupted with protesters demanding protection for transgender students and agency cuts.
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The article is laced with rat propaganda. Awful.
Trannies and other degenerates were deeply saddened.
not voting:
Shelley Moore Capito
West Virginia
Cynthia Lummis
Wyoming
Elissa Slotkin
Michigan
Peter Welch
Vermont
The People’s elbow in true fashion. Congrats and godspeed fair lady.
Apparently UPI vid MSN thinks it has made some points in this sharticle of an article.
I hope the left continues to not learn anything at all.
Trade Schools
Welder
Carpenter
Tool and die maker
Plumber
Linesman
Electrician
Roughneck /Floor Hand / Derrick
Diver
Small engine mechanic
Diesel engine mechanic
Framer
Painter
Yes, get rid of the NEA before too long
But start dismantling it IMMEDIATELY
DOE will remain as a FedGov cash distribution shell for control (blackmail and coercion) over the states until congress passes law that officially eliminates it.
Foreign money accepted by universities should be examined
Foreign money accepted by universities should be examined
yeah
Most of these are/were considered man’s jobs. End beta/soy low T pantiFA males, eliminate gov’t assistance for single moms, encourage nuclear families, traditional families; disincentivise divorce and single motherhood. Working men will increase in value and come back into fashion again.
The author of this swill left quite a bit out, eh...
Walter Curt
@WCdispatch_
🚨BREAKING: Newly Confirmed Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, within minutes of being confirmed launches “Final Mission” of the Department of Education.
“Send it back to The States.”
In her letter, obtained by Fox, she will be informing all Department of Education Employees that she will be leading this final mission:
“Our job is to respect the will of the American people and the President they elected, who has tasked us with accomplishing the elimination of bureaucratic bloat here at the Department of Education—a momentous final mission—quickly and responsibly.”
Tear it down.
This is what I voted for.
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9:15 PM · Mar 3, 2025 330K Views
https://x.com/WCdispatch_/status/1896746164331966712
Don’t forget vocational agriculture and the FFA!
Several senators who were going to vote against her changed their mind after Linda picked up the microphone and shouted: “DEVON.......GET THE TABLE!!!!!”
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