Linda McMahon
Appearances
Apple News Today
Amid the tariff frenzy, what are Trump’s actual goals?
Campuses and universities should be about open debate and discussion. What they should not be about is violence, attacking other students, attacking faculty to put forth their anti-Semitic views. These are attacks on Jewish students, Jewish faculty.
Morning Wire
Inflation Cools Down & Education Department Downsizes | 3.13.25
Is this the first step on the road to a total shutdown? Yes, actually it is because that was the president's mandate. This directive to me clearly is to shut down the Department of Education, which we know we'll have to work with Congress to get that accomplished.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs & RFK Sworn In | 2.14.25
I am really all for the president's mission, which is to return education to the states. I believe, as he does, that the best education is closest to the child and not certainly from Washington, D.C.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs & RFK Sworn In | 2.14.25
Yes. Okay. It is not the president's goal to defund the programs. It is only to have it operate more efficiently.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
I don't know. I don't want to get ahead of the president. I think you'd have to check with the White House. I think he certainly intends to sign the order, and we've talked about it. He's made it crystal clear since the time he was running for president that this is his intent.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump fires 1,300 at Department of Education; programs expected to suffer with staff gutted
That was the president's mandate, his directive to me, clearly, is to shut down the Department of Education, which we know we'll have to work with Congress, you know, to get that accomplished. But what we did today was to take the first step of eliminating what I think is bureaucratic bloat.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump fires 1,300 at Department of Education; programs expected to suffer with staff gutted
And that's not to say that a lot of the folks, you know, it's a humanitarian thing to a lot of the folks that are there. You know, they're out of a job. But we wanted to make sure that we kept all of the right people, the good people.