President-elect Donald Trump has nominated WWE co-founder Linda McMahon for Secretary of the Division of Schooling.

On Tuesday, Nov. 19, Trump, 78, introduced he anticipates bringing McMahon, 76, into his upcoming administration. McMahon beforehand served because the Administrator of the Small Enterprise Administration throughout the first half of his first time period. 

Within the Nov. 19 assertion, Trump wrote that McMahon is doing an “unimaginable” job as transition staff co-chair. 

“As Secretary of Schooling, Linda will struggle tirelessly to broaden ‘Alternative’ to each State in America, and empower dad and mom to make the perfect Schooling choices for his or her households,” Trump stated, later including, “We’ll ship Schooling BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda will spearhead that effort.”

McMahon is the chair and chief govt of the monetary agency Cantor Fitzgerald. She additionally sat on the Connecticut Board of Schooling for 2 years. She beforehand served because the Chair of the Board on the America First Coverage Institute (AFPI), and labored at each AFPI and America First Works (AFW). 

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McMahon could also be directed to supervise Trump’s plans for the abolition of the Division of Schooling.

Throughout Trump’s marketing campaign, he criticized the Division of Schooling for being “ineffective” and staffing staff who “hate our kids.” In July 2024, Trump proposed closing the company and to “lower federal funding for any faculty or program pushing crucial race concept, gender ideology or different inappropriate racial, sexual or political content material on our kids.” 

He additionally stated he needs to “discover and take away the radicals who’ve infiltrated the federal Division of Schooling,” in addition to “maintain males out of ladies’s sports activities.”

McMahon was additionally govt of World Wrestling Leisure (WWE), which she co-founded along with her husband, Vince McMahon. She resigned from her place in 2009.

Linda’s nomination follows the Nov. 19 announcement that Trump nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz as administrator of the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies.

It additionally comes after Linda’s transition staff co-chair, Howard Lutnick, was chosen as Trump’s decide for commerce secretary. Lutnick is the billionaire chairman and CEO of monetary companies agency Cantor Fitzgerald.