Linda McMahon

13th Secretary of Education — Education

Signature issue: The department wind-down itself — 'put myself out of a job' and return education to the states

Scoreboard tally

Wins, pending items, and setbacks on this profile are tallied from published scoreboard entries — never set by hand. The tally begins with the first reviewed weekly entry that scores this official.

Role status — October 2026: McMahon is the incumbent Secretary of Education, confirmed on March 3, 2025 (51–45), still in role and publicly touring in October 2026 on her “Returning Education to the States” tour. No turnover or announced change affects her seat.

Her mission is unlike any other secretary’s on this roster: the job is the wind-down of the job. In her own framing she took the post to “put myself out of a job” — eliminate the federal education bureaucracy and return education to the states — and the research records a reduction in force of roughly half the department as executed. The wind-down is the most contested structural promise in the administration’s domestic program as a matter of public debate, but no specific attributed criticism item was carried in this research pass; criticism of the wind-down is recorded on the promise tracker, attributed, as the scored items accumulate.

Verified channels:

Official-role X: @EDSecMcMahon (agency-tag grade: verified via the @usedgov agency account’s tag of Sep 30, 2026 and multiple quoted posts; the ed.gov bio page carries no social link)
Personal X: @Linda_McMahon
Agency X: @usedgov
Truth Social: no verified account found (see audit note)

Video sources: MODERATE. The “Returning Education to the States” tour, department channels, and hearings carry her record. Full-remarks search order for this site: White House → C-SPAN → committee → agency.

Why she matters to this chronicle: McMahon is the only cabinet secretary whose signature promise is the elimination of her own department. The Education category of this scoreboard is therefore a wind-down ledger: staffing levels, functions transferred or ended, litigation over the department’s authority, and what the states actually take over — each item scored against her own stated mission.

Sources (Oct 2026): Research Cluster B (2026-10-18), citing her Senate confirmation (Mar 3, 2025, 51–45), her stated wind-down mission, the executed reduction in force, and her Oct 2026 tour; Audit Sprint B on the @EDSecMcMahon verification grade; Roster Audit §2.