Trump Education Secretary McMahon delivers opening statement to House panel, vowing to dismantle DC bureaucracy
Education Secretary Linda McMahon delivered her opening statement before the House Education and the Workforce Committee on Thursday, vowing to dismantle D.C. educational bureaucracy and return authority to parents, teachers and local leaders.
Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon declared on Thursday that Americans elected President Donald Trump "to sunset" the "education bureaucracy," asserting that the administration is enacting "education renewal."
"Americans reelected President Trump with a clear mandate to sunset a 46-year-old, $3-trillion dollar, failed education bureaucracy in D.C. and return authority to where it belongs to parents, teachers and local leaders," she said during her opening statement before the House Committee on Education and Workforce on Thursday.
"Today I can confidently attest that we're delivering on the vision of educational renewal that for decades many promised, but none delivered," she added.
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Education Secretary Linda McMahon at a House Committee on Education and Workforce hearing titled "Examining the Policies and Priorities of the Department of Education" on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on May 14, 2026. (Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)
The secretary is testifying before the House Committee on Education and Workforce hearing titled, "Examining the Policies and Priorities of the Department of Education."
"We've been clear: Shifting authority back to the states will not come at the expense of essential federal support and programs, much of which predate the department itself," she said.
Linda McMahon, U.S. education secretary, during a "Saving College Sports" roundtable in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday, March 6, 2026. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
McMahon added that when Trump's "administration makes promises, we keep them."
"And with your partnership, we will unleash momentous opportunity for every child to realize their God-given potential," she said at the hearing.
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The U.S. flag and Department of Education flags whip in the wind outside the department's headquarters on March 6, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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"The most important thing we can do for our children is to make sure they can read and do math. We have failed them. When you have only 30%, or even a little less, of eighth graders and fourth graders that can read at proficient level, we are failing our students, and we need to change that," McMahon said.
