Trump taps former WWE CEO Linda McMahon to serve as education secretary

President-elect Trump announced connected Tuesday nighttime that helium intends to name Linda McMahon, erstwhile CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), to pb the Department of Education.

His announcement, which was posted connected Truth Social, came hours aft 2 sources told Fox News that McMahon was apt to beryllium picked.

"It is my large grant to denote that Linda McMahon, erstwhile Administrator of the Small Business Administration, volition beryllium the United States Secretary of Education," Trump's connection read.

"As Secretary of Education, Linda volition combat tirelessly to grow ‘Choice’ to each State successful America, and empower parents to marque the champion Education decisions for their families," the property merchandise added. "Linda served for 2 years connected the Connecticut Board of Education, wherever she was 1 of 15 members overseeing each Public Education successful the State, including its Technical High School system."

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Trump is expected to prime Linda McMahon to pb the Department of Education. (Reuters)

McMahon, who served arsenic head of the Small Business Administration successful the archetypal Trump administration, is the woman of Vince McMahon. The mates some co-founded WWE successful 1980.

"Linda volition usage her decades of Leadership experience, and heavy knowing of some Education and Business, to empower the adjacent Generation of American Students and Workers, and marque America Number One successful Education successful the World," Trump's connection concluded. "We volition nonstop Education BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda volition spearhead that effort."

McMahon served successful the Trump medication from 2017 to 2019. When she resigned, she wrote that the relation had been "immensely rewarding."

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President Trump shakes hands with Linda McMahon, the outgoing head of the Small Business Administration, successful Palm Beach, Fla., March 29, 2019. ( Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

"While it has genuinely been the grant of a beingness to service our state successful this Administration, it is clip for maine to measurement down and instrumentality to the backstage sector," McMahon wrote successful 2019. "I privation to convey the President and I volition proceed to beryllium a beardown advocator for him and his policies."

Trump has antecedently floated the thought of disbanding the Department of Education, which began operating successful 1980. The agency's website says that its ngo is to "promote pupil accomplishment and mentation for planetary competitiveness by fostering acquisition excellence and ensuring adjacent entree for students of each ages."

Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told Fox News big Martha MacCallum past week that the Department of Education "doesn't truly adhd immoderate worth anywhere. DeVos advised that the accidental for Trump to radically alteration the department is "wide open."

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Linda McMahon, erstwhile head of Small Business Administration, speaks astatine the Republican National Convention successful Milwaukee, July 18. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

"Take the powerfulness distant from the Department of Education, block-grant those funds, proceed to put successful education, but get it down to a overmuch much section level wherever amended decisions are made connected behalf of students," DeVos said. "The bureaucrats astatine the Department of Education aren't doing the job. They haven't done the occupation for much than 4 decades to adjacent the accomplishment gaps — they've lone widened."

Fox News Digital's Joshua Comins contributed to this report.