Zoë Richards is a politics reporter for NBC News.
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Linda McMahon, a former World Wrestling Entertainment executive who served in the first Trump administration, as his pick to lead the Education Department. If she is confirmed by the Senate, McMahon would oversee a department that Trump said he planned to “get rid” of as it currently exists and allow each state to individually “handle education.
super PAC, as well as $937,800 to his campaign and affiliated joint fundraising committees. McMahon, 76, is married to former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon. Trump has said he plans to sign an executive order that would strip federal funding “from any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content onto the shoulders of our children.
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