← Chronicle · Confirmation · March 3, 2025

Linda McMahon Confirmed as Secretary of Education, 51–45

Senate vote: 51–45

Linda McMahon was confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of Education on March 3, 2025, by a vote of 51–45.

The mission that started here is the wind-down of the Department of Education itself: Secretary McMahon’s stated signature — in her own recurring phrase, to “put myself out of a job” — is eliminating the federal bureaucracy and returning education to the states, a program this site’s research files record as including a reduction in force of roughly half the department, and which she has carried on the road in her Returning Education to the States tour.

Sources: Senate confirmation record, March 3, 2025, 51–45 (banked in this site’s research cluster B); U.S. Department of Education.