Newly confirmed Education Secretary Linda McMahon during a cabinet meeting at the White House last week. Al Drago/CNP/Zuma
In President Donald Trump’s meritocracy, you apparently don’t need much educational experience to run the Department of Education.
The Republican-controlled Senate on Monday confirmed former wrestling exec and billionaire Linda McMahon as the next Secretary of Education. With a demonstrated lack of knowledge about even the most basic education laws and policies, McMahon is now the head of a department that Trump has called a “big con job” that he hopes to dismantle.
The Senate voted 51-45 to confirm McMahon after Democrats spent hours opposing the confirmation and a pending bill to ban trans girls and women from women’s sports from kindergarten through college….