The Senate voted on Monday to confirm Linda McMahon to be the next — and potentially last — secretary of the Department of Education. In voting to confirm McMahon, Senate Republicans effectively gave her their consent to act on a clear directive from President Donald Trump: “to put herself out of a job.”
McMahon, the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment and a Trump loyalist, was confirmed 51-44, along party lines. All Republicans voted yes except for Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Cynthia Lummis, who did not vote. Many Democrats also did not vote. In a letter to Senators after her confirmation hearing, McMahon offered full-throated support for what Trump has stated are his plans for the Department of Education.
“President Trump believes that the bureaucracy in Washington should be abolished so that we can return education to the states, where it belongs. I wholeheartedly support and agree with this