Linda McMahon makes a major mistake on Fox News while trying to defend education cuts
Education Secretary Linda McMahon groped on national television to key acronyms.
The former professional wrestling promoter sat down with Fox News on Tuesday to defend the division’s large number of employees laying off about 1,300 employees, announcing earlier in the day that it was just to unknowingly prove a true basic education.
McMahon explained on Ingraham Angle that Congress passed the department’s spending and program grants, including the Disability Education Act or Ideas, which provides free public education for children with disabilities.
But when asked what “thoughts” mean, the 76-year-old couldn't answer accurately – and told host Laura Ingraham: “Well, you know? I'm not sure I can tell you exactly what it represents, except for the procedures that are disabled and needs [students]. ”
Ingrahan, too, could not tell her audience, shaking leisurely, with the acronym for “disabled behavior.” Of course, the “E” that lacks “education” is actually McMahon’s department and one of the key acronyms that one might want her to know.
“This is my fifth day of work,” McMahon said. “I really want to learn them very quickly.”
The 76-year-old is known for his co-founded World Wrestling Entertainment, and last week the U.S. Senate confirmed as President Donald Trump's education secretary. On Tuesday, she claimed that the upcoming staff was not her idea, but Trump’s idea.
“That’s the president’s mission,” McMahon told Ingraham based on The Daily Beast. “Obviously, his instructions to me were to close the Ministry of Education. What we did today is to take the first step toward eliminating what I think is bureaucracy.”
The department announced on its government website Tuesday that the federal education workforce of 4,133 people will be cut to about half to 2,183. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, administrative leave will be officially placed on March 21 starting from March 21.
McMahon enthusiastically defended the decision in an interview with Ingraham on Tuesday.
“We want to make sure we keep all the right people, good people, to make sure outward plans, grants, grants from Congress, all of which are met and none of that falls into the cracks,” she said.
The cracks in these areas have grown instability since the pandemic on 199, but according to the latest results of the exam known as the “National Transcript”, including reading skills. The exam further shows that children have little improvement in math since 2022.
“Donald Trump has mastered the future of 50 million public school students across the United States, and today he told those kids and their parents that he didn't deserve to die for them,” Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin said in a statement Tuesday.
