Linda McMahon, a longtime CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment who worked under the first Trump administration, was appointed by President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday to head the Education Department.
If approved by the Senate, McMahon would take charge of a department that Trump claimed he intended to eliminate as it presently stands and let the states manage education on their own.
Trump said in a statement that characterized McMahon as a strong supporter of parents’ rights that “Linda will fight tirelessly as Secretary of Education to expand ‘Choice’ to every State in America and empower parents to make the best education decisions for their families.”
Co-chairing Trump’s presidential transition team is McMahon. She led the pro-Trump America First Action super PAC in 2019 after leaving her Cabinet-level position as head of the Small Business Administration during his first term.
McMahon was a member of the Connecticut State Board of Education in 2009 before to entering the first Trump administration. She left the board to run unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate positions in the state in 2010 and 2012.
McMahon’s appointment as Trump’s choice for education secretary was first reported by CNN.
McMahon was one of Trump’s biggest funders during the 2024 campaign, giving his campaign and allied joint fundraising committees $937,800 and more than $20 million to the Make America Great Again Inc. super PAC.
McMahon, 76, is wed to Vince McMahon, the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment.
According to Trump, he intends to issue an executive order that will deprive federal funds to any school that forces our children to learn about transgender craziness, critical race theory, and other offensive racial, sexual, or political topics.
In a Fox News opinion piece this year, McMahon attacked diversity, equality, and inclusion initiatives, arguing that DEI regulations had little bearing on the training of skilled workers and that these policies increased the expenses and administrative strains on all apprenticeship programs.
McMahon attended the SpaceX Starship launch in Texas on Tuesday alongside Elon Musk, the president-elect and the newly appointed co-chair of a new Department of Government Efficiency.
Along with other former Trump administration officials, McMahon founded the conservative think tank America First Policy Institute in 2021, where she currently serves as its chair of the board. Trump has stated his intention to choose other members of the group, such as former Representative Lee Zeldin of New York to head the Environmental Protection Agency and former Representative Doug Collins of Georgia to be secretary of veteran affairs.
McMahon is the most recent member of Trump’s transition team to be appointed to the Cabinet. He appointed Howard Lutnick, the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, who is co-chairing his transition with McMahon, as his nominee for commerce secretary earlier Tuesday.
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