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Trump picks Linda McMahon, former wrestling executive, to head Department of Education


Linda McMahon is a co-chair of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team and was the Small Business Administrator in his first term.

She is also currently a co-chair of Trump's transition team, along with Howard Lutnick, head of brokerage and investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald. President Donald Trump with Linda McMahon, then head of the Small Business Administration, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, March 29, 2019. During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump promised to shut down the Department of Education, complaining that the agency's budget is too large and that its staff is filled with "people that in many cases hate our children."

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