The president-elect of the United States has announced that he will nominate billionaire professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon as secretary of the Department of Education, an agency that Donald Trump has promised to dismantle.
Republican McMahon led the Small Business Administration during Trump's first term, from 2017 to 2019, and ran twice unsuccessfully for the Senate, the upper house of the US parliament, for the state of Connecticut (northeast).
Following his time in the Trump administration, McMahon became chairman of the board of the 'America First Policy Institute', a think tank created by Trump supporters and former officials.
The billionaire is seen as relatively unknown in education circles, although she has expressed support for parent-created schools and the right of parents to choose their children's schools.
McMahon served on the Connecticut Board of Education in 2009 and spent years on the board of trustees at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut.
"Linda will use her decades of leadership experience and deep knowledge of both education and business to empower the next generation of [American] students and workers and make America number one in education in the world," he said Tuesday. fair night Trump.
"Linda will fight tirelessly" to bring more educational freedom to every American state and "empower parents to make the best educational decisions for their families," the president-elect said in a statement.
The businesswoman is married to Vince McMahon, who stepped down as leader of World Wrestling Entertainment in 2022, despite denying allegations of sexual assault and human trafficking.
Hours earlier, Trump announced that he will nominate Mehmet Oz, a heart surgeon known from a television show, to lead the agency that oversees the Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs for millions of older, poor and disabled Americans.
Medicaid provides nearly free health coverage to millions of America's poorest children and adults, while Medicare gives older Americans and the disabled access to health insurance.
Mehmet Oz has been accused of selling dubious medical treatments and products on his now-defunct TV show.
At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, he lobbied government officials to make hydroxychloroquine available, despite doubts about its safety and effectiveness.
Trump had already announced on Tuesday the appointment of Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and co-chair of his White House transition team, as the next Secretary of Commerce.
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