BREAKING: Trump to nominate transition co-chair Linda McMahon as Education Dept secretary: report

Trump transition co-chair Linda McMahon is expected to be named President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for US Department of Education secretary.

CNN reporter Kristen Holmes wrote, “Linda McMahon is expected to be named as Education Secretary, four sources familiar with the matter tell me and Kaitlan Collins - decision was formed after her co-chair Howard Lutnick was given Commerce, a role McMahon wanted."

Trump named McMahon as a chair of the Trump-Vance 2025 transition team, which includes his sons, Vice President-elect JD Vance, as well as other loyal supporters of Trump's campaign to win the presidency. McMahon previously served as head of the Small Business Administration under the previous Trump administration and was the director of financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick. She left the Trump administration in 2019 to become chair of the pro-Trump super PAC America First Action, CNN reported.

In June, Trump pledged to shut down the Department of Education. “I will shut down the federal Department of Education and we will move everything back to the states where it belongs and where they can individualize education and do it with the love for their children,” the the then-presumptive GOP nominee said. Grassroots Republicans see the department as a source of massive government spending that promotes woke policies. 

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