Trump picks business executive Linda McMahon to lead the Education Department

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McMahon is a professional wrestling business magnate and co-chair of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team. She has limited experience working with K-12 public schools.

President-elect Donald Trump announced he will nominate Linda McMahon, a former head of the U.S. Small Business Administration during his first term and a co-chair of hisMcMahon is a professional wrestling magnate who ran two unsuccessful campaigns for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut. She was selected by Trump to lead the SBA during his first presidency.

McMahon is a former professional wrestling executive. Along with her husband Vince McMahon, she helped build World Wrestling Entertainment into a powerhouse.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,

Donald Trump has railed against these protections, though, and vowed to unwind them – something that's well within his education secretary's power. That's because Biden's protections were not a change in the federal law known as Title IX, but a change in the government's"So they could stop enforcing Title IX," says Perera – or at least stop enforcing Biden's expanded vision of it.

The courts have so far been skeptical of Biden's efforts to broadly cancel student debt without Congressional approval. And with Plan B's fate still being litigated, the next secretary could simply choose to stop defending it., the Saving on a Valuable Education Plan, which slashes borrowers' payments while also preventing interest from growing.

 

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