On the morning of Linda McMahon’s Senate confirmation hearing to head the Department of Education, CASE released a coalition letter from earlier in the week of nearly 20 national education, taxpayer, and free market advocate organizations calling for her swift confirmation.
President Trump tapped McMahon to help clean up a federal agency that has fallen into disgrace through rank incompetence, never-ending court battles, and a far-left ideological agenda targeted at certain disfavored educational institutions through the use of aggressive and politically motivated lawsuits. The department’s most glaring controversies involved the Biden Administration’s repeated attempts to flout a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court denying it the authority to grant tens of billions of dollars in student loan forgiveness in what many called out as an illegal vote-buying scheme. The Administration was undeterred by the high court’s ruling and moved forward with their loan forgiveness plan.
Said CASE chairman Gerard Scimeca, “After four years of incompetent and highly partisan stewardship, the DoEd is in absolute disarray on all levels. Linda McMahon has a distinguished track record as a proven executive within the public and private sectors, and her thoughtful, principled leadership is exactly what is needed to right the Department’s ship. We strongly support her vision and urge you to support her nomination.”
The full lettere can be found here.
