McMahon’s nomination still needs to be approved by the Senate, where, given the majority of Republicans, it should pass only formally.
The newly elected US President Donald Trump has nominated Linda McMahon, the former head of the professional wrestling association, as the Secretary of Education. During the election campaign, he stated that he would cancel this department, reports TASR based on the AP and AFP agencies.
McMahon led the US Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019, during Trump’s first term as US president. Currently, she is the co-chair of Trump’s so-called transition team, preparing for his return to the White House in January.
Together with her husband Vince McMahon, she founded a private wrestling company, which later became the professional association World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). She left her position as WWE CEO in 2009 to enter politics.
In 2010 and 2012, she twice ran unsuccessfully for the post of senator for the state of Connecticut. Subsequently, she became a significant sponsor of Trump’s election campaign, while she currently holds one of the leading positions in the pro-Trump political action committee America First Action.
In the field of education, according to the AP, McMahon is seen as relatively unknown, although Trump highlighted her two years on the board of education in Connecticut and 16 years on the board of trustees of the private Catholic school Sacred Heart University in this American state.
McMahon’s nomination still needs to be approved by the Senate. Given that the Republicans will have the majority of seats in this upper chamber of the US Congress from January, it should only be a formality.
