Linda McMahon has not served as Administrator of the Small Business Administration in recent years. Instead, she currently serves as the Secretary of Education, where she has garnered national headlines for her involvement in a series of major reforms and policy changes within the Department of Education. Over the past week, Linda McMahon made headlines by revealing her plan to work with Congress to gradually dismantle the Department of Education through a series of targeted smaller bills. This approach, she explained in an interview with The Daily Signal, would enable Congress to more effectively debate and transition key federal education programs to other government agencies or return them to the states. McMahon expressed confidence in this approach, citing the recent Supreme Court ruling that gave her the authority to proceed with President Donald Trump's executive order calling for the closure of the department. She emphasized her commitment to ensuring that core functions like special-needs education and the student loan system continue but operate more efficiently and economically in new administrative homes.
In a separate move, McMahon temporarily halted the Income-Based Repayment student loan forgiveness program in order to bring the Department of Education’s systems into compliance with recent court injunctions affecting the previous administration’s debt relief policies. Department officials stated that this pause is needed to recalculate repayment timelines for borrowers, ensuring accuracy following federal court rulings on how carried months of forbearance should be treated when determining loan forgiveness eligibility. McMahon’s team insists discharges under this plan will resume once the proper updates are completed, and any borrower affected by the pause will be reimbursed for overpayments.
Another major development was the recent settlement between Columbia University and the Trump administration, which agreed to pay over two hundred million dollars to restore federal funding. President Trump personally commended McMahon for her leadership in negotiating a deal that will require Columbia to overhaul its policies on discrimination and merit-based admissions. McMahon described the settlement as transformational, calling it a blueprint for how elite universities can regain public trust by upholding the principles of merit and civil debate. She said the agreement would have widespread effects across American higher education and expressed hope that similar reforms would soon follow at other institutions.
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