The Secretary of Education of the United States, Linda McMahon, said Friday that President Donald Trump “intends to sign an executive order to dissolve the Department of Education, but it is not yet clear when.
“I don’t know. I don’t want to get ahead of the president,” he said In “Fox & Friends “FridayAdding “I think you would have to consult with the White House.”
His comments arrive after the White House on Thursday withdrew the expected signature of an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education. The White House reached the signing of the order due to the decline concerns that the order would receive, specifically if the vital federal programs could no longer exist, multiple sources confirmed to ABC News.
Without giving any detail, McMahon said he had spoken with Trump about the executive order and that he is “clear” in motion. As ABC News reported earlier this week, a draft of the order asks McMahon to facilitate the closure of an apartment taking all the necessary measures “allowed by law,” the sources said.
In the interview, McMahon stressed that the agency’s abolition is based on allowing families to the right to “quality education” through school choice.
The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, arrives at President Trump’s joint speech on Congress on March 4, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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She mentioned that children should not be “trapped in failed schools” and that their parents deserve the right to send them to better schools through several programs and coupons systems.
“It certainly intends to sign the order,” McMahon said. “His intention is to provide quality education through the choice of school to all students, and wants to ensure that education is back in state where it belongs, that our local school boards, that governors, teachers and parents really are those who are involved mainly in the education of their children.”
Education is already a local problem. The department conducts federal investigations and research projects; It also supervises the programs aimed at protecting the civil rights of students and those with disabilities.
McMahon emphasized that the department does not create a school curriculum and said that the agency that has been used to lead is not necessary.
“[The president] It couldn’t be clearer when he said he wants me to get out of work, “he said.
However, such movements would require the approval of Congress; Any proposed legislation would probably fail without 60 votes from the Senate.
The United States Department of Education in Washington, DC, on March 6, 2025.
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The Congress rarely appeared in the interview with “Fox & Friends “Anchor Ainsley Earhardt, who mentioned that a closure of the department would take 60 votes from the Senate to close the agency that Congress began in 1980. During the McMahon confirmation hearing last month, he said he would need Congress to carry out the promise and vision of the president’s campaign.
“We would like to do this well,” he said, adding that the closing of the department “certainly requires an action of Congress.”
The allies of McMahon as Glenn Jacobs, the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, better known as the Superstar of World Wrestling Entertainment Kane, told ABC News that choosing McMahon is helping to bring “transformative change” to the federal government.
“If you put a source from Washington there, you are getting the same,” Jacobs said. “We are in the situation in which we have $ 36 billion in debt and the government does not work because we have just left with the status quo for so long that there must be some radical transformation.”
But McMahon’s critics promise to press forward to preserve the department. In Virtual direction With educational leaders on Thursday, New York governor Kathy Hochul said the agency will damage millions of students in New York and throughout the country.
“That [the Trump administration is] To do that is that our children don’t matter, “said Hochul.” What is most important is that we cut, for the sake of the Court, and we can also finance tax exemptions for millionaires and billionaires. Then, instead of supporting a kind of mathematics, they are supporting tax exemptions for friends in Mar-A-Lago. “
With dozens of employees of the Department of Education and to the limit, some with a paid license, taking packaging packages of retirement or fighting to do their job as a closing department progresses, McMahon said he would like to help federal workers fired to find a new job.
“Every time you talk about closing an apartment, the employees who are there are worried about their work, but there are good ramps for them,” said McMahon. “In a country where we now have more than 8 million openings and jobs, I think there will be many places for them. We would like to help them get there.”
Meanwhile, the Business Executive and former WWE president said that she thanked the contribution of the Efficiency Department of the Government responsible for scrubbing the Federal Government for fraud, waste and abuse. She said that she frequently meets with dogle while performing an “audit” of the agency.
“When I was in the private sector, I think many things always appear when you do a good and solid audit,” McMahon said. “I welcome the people of Dege in which they are: we meet them almost daily. I have very much appreciated the things that have shown us, some of the waste, and we are just where we are reacting to that.”
