Important Takeaways:

• The hearing lasted barely 15 minutes. Hardly bothering to answer protests of Democratic senators, the Republican majority of the Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Thursday morning recommended Linda McMahon to lead the U.S. Department of Education.
• As head of the agency, the executive intends to dismantle it.
• In shutting its programs, or parceling them out to other agencies, McMahon will complete the assignment that President Donald Trump gave when he nominated her: to “send education back to the states.”
• Acting on Trump’s executive orders, the Education Department has already pulled the plug on its diversity programs. It vowed to punish schools that consider race in any operating decision.
• Once in charge, McMahon will shutter department programs not established by statute, and then draft legislation to close what remains.
• At her confirmation hearing Feb. 13, she said that American public schools were a “system in decline.”
• The vote went quickly, 12 to 11, along party lines. With the committee’s approval, McMahon’s nomination will now go for a vote by the full Senate.

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