‘We’ll See Our Scores Go Up’: Linda McMahon Vows To End Bureaucratic Bloat In Education, Fulfill Trump’s Mandate

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon vowed Tuesday on Fox News to end the “bureaucratic bloat” within the Education Department to fulfill President Donald Trump’s mandate.

Since Trump’s first campaign trail in 2015, the president has sought to cut federal spending to the U.S. Department of Education, criticizing “Common Core.” On “The Ingraham Angle,” the newly confirmed secretary was asked by Fox host Laura Ingraham if recent cuts to staff are the first step in a “total shutdown” of the department.

“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,” McMahon said. “But what we did today was to take the first step of eliminating what I think is bureaucratic bloat.

“That’s not to say that a lot of the folks — it’s a humanitarian thing to a lot of the folks that are there. They’re out of a job. But we wanted to make sure that we kept all of the right people, the good people, to make sure that the outward facing programs, the grants, the appropriations that come from Congress, all of that are being met. None of that’s going to fall through the cracks,” McMahon added.

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