Linda McMahon wastes no time using Day 1 to announce ‘overhaul’ of Department of Education

on the day she was sworn into office.

to “put herself out of a job” and shut down the department.

Monday.

She warned that the overhauling of the department will “profoundly impact staff, budgets and agency operations.”

“We must start thinking about our final mission at the department as an overhaul—a last chance to restore the culture of liberty and excellence that made American education great,” McMahon said.

making it the smallest of the 15 cabinet executive departments.

McMahon acknowledged that she would need the cooperation of Congress to dismantle the department.

reported.

to the “maximum extent allowed by law.

In her statement, McMahon also lashed out at DEI initiatives and said that taxpayer-funded education “should refocus on meaningful learning in math, reading, science and history—not divisive DEI programs and gender ideology.”

Democrats sounded the alarms about the proposal.

ABC News.

Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state branded McMahon “another unqualified billionaire who doesn’t understand the Department she’s tasked with leading,” while Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent on the Senate Education Committee, added: “We must make the Department of Education stronger and more efficient, not to dismantle it as Trump has proposed.”

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