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Linda McMahon confirmed to lead Education Department that Trump wants ‘closed immediately’
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1:04Now PlayingWorld Wrestling Entertainment co-founder Linda McMahon was confirmed along party lines by the US Senate on Monday to lead the Department of Education — which is already cutting funding and offering buyouts to its workforce as President Trump has made clear he wants the agency “closed immediately.”
The 51-45 vote made McMahon the 20th member of Trump’s 22-person cabinet to be confirmed. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (D-W. Va.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) did not vote.
McMahon, 76, grappled her way through committee vetting in a party-line vote on Feb. 20 and will now head up a department that spent around $268 billion last year with little to show for it.
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