Mary Trump - Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Is Destroying Her Department
And that was her mission
What the Trump regime is building is a two-tiered education system. One tier is reserved for children whose families can afford private schools, supplemental therapies, elite universities, and carefully guided access to emerging AI technologies. The other is for everyone else: underfunded public schools stripped of federal oversight, special education protections steadily weakened, college access programs eliminated, and an AI initiative rolled out without the funding, safeguards, or support necessary to help the children who need it most.
On May 14, 2026, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon appeared before the House Committee on Education and Workforce to defend the Trump regimes budget proposal. In her opening statement, she told lawmakers exactly what she is there to do:
The American people elected President Trump with a clear mandate: to sunset a 46-year-old, $3 trillion failed federal education bureaucracy in Washington, D.C., and return authority to where it belongs: to parents, teachers and local leaders.
The sitting Secretary of Education called the department she leads a failure. She did not come to defend it, improve it, or fight for the children it serves. She came to bury it without apology under Donald Trump.
https://www.marytrump.org/p/secretary-of-education-linda-mcmahon
Smart people don't like Donny, so he wants fewer of them.
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