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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Continuing their pattern of rubber stamping deeply flawed and unqualified Trump nominees, today Republican Senators unanimously confirmed Linda McMahon as Education Secretary. The billionaire wrestling entertainment tycoon with “minimal education experience” and an alleged history of sweeping sexual abuse against young boys at her corporation under the carpet has declared she “wholeheartedly” agrees with President Trump’s plagiarized Project 2025 plan to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. Education policy experts have warned dismantling the Department would be “catastrophic for the millions of students in low-income communities who depend on federal educational services and support” while “civil rights protections against discrimination based on race, gender, and disability would also be gutted.” 

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Every Senator who confirmed McMahon is now complicit in the Trump-Project 2025 scheme to abolish the Education Department and jeopardize billions in federal funding needed to strengthen public schools and support special education programs. The one-two gut punch of the administration’s plans to starve states, especially conservative ones, of critical federal Medicaid and Education money to pay for another wasteful tax break for billionaires like McMahon will leave millions of Americans behind for decades to come. The more the President stacks his administration with eccentric billionaires, the further the system gets rigged against working people, seniors and students.

Republican Senators also know Linda McMahon is unlikely to enforce Title IX sex discrimination protections as Education Secretary given her history of allegedly enabling child abuse at her corporation, but they just didn’t care."

Accountable.US Executive Director Tony Carrk.

FACT SHEET: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LINDA McMAHON

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