Democratic legislators on Senate The Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pension (assistance) was saved by candidate for candidate for education of President Donald Trump Linda McMahon on Thursday for effort to reduce costs, by the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), an agency conducted by the technological billionaire Elon Elon Musk.
“I believe that the American people spoke loudly in the election last November to say that they want to look at waste, fraud and abuse in our government,” said McMahon, former WWTING ENTERTAINMENT (WWE) CEO.
Pressing by Democrats, including the Senator of the Kainea team, D-vi. If she followed the cuts proposed by “Doge Brothers”, McMahon said it could be counted that the Congress Statute “because it is law. “
Trump’s candidate for education Linda McMahon says
Linda McMahon, President of President Donald Trump for Secretary of Education, testifies during her hearing to confirm the Committee on Health, Work, Work and Pensions on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC (Win McNamee/Getty Images))
Senator Patty Murray, Democrat, He also asked if McMahon believed that Doge should have access to “private students data”, suggesting that their probes “should scare everything”.
“I understand that these employees were on board as employees of the Department of Education, and therefore act under the limitations of use of access to information,” said McMahon
“That’s not my understanding,” Murray said.
“That’s my understanding,” McMahon replied.
Murray said it was “deeply disturbing” that Dogea employees are not “responsible” and that it should be “scared” if they have access to the student’s private data.
Linda McMahon worked as a head of the administration of small businesses in the first term of President Trump as president. They are shown together in this photo from 2019. (Reuters/Joshua Roberts)
Department of Education Canceled more than $ 100 million in grants to train diversity, capital and inclusions (DEI) as part of a wider effort to reduce the costs conducted by Doge, Fox News Digital has previously reported. Doge announced a termination of 89 DOE contracts, with a total of $ 881 million, including $ 101 million awarded to dei programs focused on educating educators about oppressors, privileges and powers on Monday.
“Tax dollars have been spent on that,” Musk wrote about Doe consumption.
Doga reported that the Ministry of Education spent an additional $ 1.5 million on the contractor to “watch the E -Stand and the priestly operations” at the Postal Center, a contract that was also terminated in a dramatic consumption audit.
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Linda McMahon is expected to receive the support of Republican senators on the Capitol hill in this photo in the 2025 -year -old hill, but it is unlikely that many Democrats will cross the passage that will vote for its confirmation. (Valerie Plech/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
At one point, the moderate Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine raised the terminated contracts as she asked the fears of some educators who could be on the skewer scholarship.
“There are many valuable programs we should keep,” McMahon said in response to Collins. “But I still haven’t watched them. I want to study them. I would love to come back and talk to you and work with you.”
Doge was on a tirade to reduce consumption Inside Doe, including the abolition of three scholarships in early February, one of which funded the institution that hosted the Faculty Workshops on the “decolonization of the curriculum”. Early Executive Commands of President Donald Trump launched a federal overview of dei practices in educational institutions financed by the Federal States.
During the hearing on Thursday, McMahon testified that she “did not” talk to a man about the education department.
