WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President-elect Donald Trump announced in a statement on Tuesday that he had chosen businesswoman Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education, even though the Republican proposed during the campaign to abolish this department.
Linda McMahon, whose name had been circulating as a potential Secretary of Commerce in the future Trump administration, made her fortune in wrestling with her husband in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
She led the federal agency for aid to SMEs (Small Business Administration, SBA) at the start of Donald Trump’s first term (January 2017-January 2021), of which she is a long-time supporter and of whom she was one of the main donors during the former real estate mogul’s first presidential campaign in 2016.
Resigning from the SBA in 2019, she took the helm of America First Action, a group centralizing donations collected by Donald Trump, and also directs the America First Policy Institute think tank, with positions aligned with those of the Republican.
(Jasper Ward; French version Jean Terzian)
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