By Maria Ortiz
Nov 19, 2024, 10:16 PM EST
The elected president donald trump said Tuesday that he will nominate his transition co-chair Linda McMahon as Secretary of Educationonce again choosing a loyal, major donor to the Republican Party and a retired World Wrestling Entertainment executive, to serve in his cabinet.
Trump reported in a statement that McMahon, 76, will be in charge of directing the Department of Education, despite only having experience in education at the local level, as a member of the Connecticut State Board of Education.
As Secretary of Education, she “will fight tirelessly to expand school choice to every state in the country and empower parents to make the best educational decisions for their families,” the president-elect said.
“Linda will use her decades of leadership experience and deep knowledge of both education and business to empower the next generation of American students and workers, and make the United States number one in education in the world,” he added.
McMahon was in charge of the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term. She was appointed in 2017 and resigned in 2019 to become president of America First Action, a pro-Trump super PAC.
Together with her husband, Vince McMahon, the future Secretary of Education founded the WWE, an American media and entertainment company mainly integrated into the area of professional wrestling.
Until 2009, the former executive oversaw the transformation of WWE from a small wrestling entertainment company to a publicly traded media empire.
McMahon ran twice unsuccessfully for the United States Senate from Connecticut, in 2010 and 2012.
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