{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-calls-for-secretary-mcmahon-to-resign-in-usa-today-op-ed", "Warren Calls For Secretary McMahon to Resign in USA Today Op-Ed", "2025-12-01", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "MA", "Elizabeth Warren", "W000817", "www.warren.senate.gov", "warren", "https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Warren Calls For Secretary McMahon to Resign in USA Today Op-Ed\n\n\u201cLinda McMahon has no business leading the Department of Education. She should resign.\u201d\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) published an op-ed in USA Today calling for Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to resign following the recent news that President Trump and Secretary McMahon plan to further dismantle the Department of Education (ED).\n\nSenator Warren has led the fight to make the higher education system more affordable, cancel student loan debt, and hold student loan servicers accountable for incompetence and malfeasance. She launched the Save Our Schools campaign in a coordinated effort to fight back against President Trump\u2019s attempts to abolish the Department of Education.\n\nLast week, Senator Warren pushed for an expanded investigation into the Trump administration\u2019s attempts to dismantle ED and whether its recent decision to transfer many of ED\u2019s responsibilities to four other agencies violates federal law.\n\nRead the full op-ed here and below.\n\nUSA Today: Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Education Secretary Linda McMahon should resign\n\nDecember 1, 2025\n\nShortly after she was sworn in, I invited Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to my office.\n\nI looked her dead in the eye and asked, \u201cNow, I just want to be clear, do you think you can shut down the Department of Education?\u201d\n\nShe looked straight back at me and said, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t have the legal authority to do that.\u201d\n\nBut here we are.\n\nIt\u2019s official: Donald Trump and Secretary McMahon are dismantling the Department of Education one piece at a time. This is, in Secretary McMahon\u2019s words, the department\u2019s \u201cfinal mission.\u201d\n\nThe assault on the department has come in several directions. On Nov. 18, Secretary McMahon announced that she was transferring major functions of the department to four other federal agencies. This means that programs are being moved into other agencies that have no relevant expertise to be managed by people who know nothing about the issues.\n\nNO PART OF PUBLIC EDUCATION WILL REMAIN UNTOUCHED\n\nHere\u2019s just one example of how this will work: Under this new arrangement, the Department of Labor will be in charge of supporting K-12 literacy, American history and civics, and Title I funding. Drink that in: Labor Department employees will decide which reading readiness programs to support for kindergartners.\n\nIn fact, no part of public education will remain untouched by this move. Title I provides the biggest federal fund for K-12 schools and is used to help pay for good teachers and new textbooks all across America. School administrators are concerned that these changes may result in bigger class sizes, fewer afterschool and tutoring programs, and not enough workbooks for our kids because federal funding isn\u2019t coming through.\n\nThere\u2019s more: Secretary McMahon has been trying to slash the section of the Department of Education that assists students with disabilities and their families. If she\u2019s successful, this could sharply limit access to speech therapy, individual aides and special equipment that are all essential for these children to participate fully in a classroom education.\n\nSecretary McMahon has also fired half the staff at the Department of Education. For the 6 million students taking out loans for college each year and the 43 million wrestling with their outstanding loans, cuts at the Department of Education's student loan division will hit hard. The secretary of Education seems determined to sideline the cop on the beat to stop the scammers who prey on these students.\n\nBoth families and schools will suffer. Because of the changes the secretary has made, schools will no longer be able to turn to the Department of Education when they face problems. Instead, they will now have to navigate four federal agencies and new staff and systems.\n\nTRUMP AND MCMAHON WANT TO DESTROY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT FROM WITHIN\n\nAgencies that have no experience will be in charge, risking mistakes, confusion and delays in funding. For all the Trump administration\u2019s talk about government efficiency, this is the opposite. This is no accident.\n\nWhile Donald Trump and Secretary McMahon claim to care about efficiency, the real goal has been clear all along: They want to destroy the Department of Education from within. They want to make the department so dysfunctional that people will want to get rid of it.\n\nBecause here\u2019s the thing: If they can create a system so complicated that it doesn\u2019t work and if they hollow out the Department of Education just enough, there will be nothing left to abolish.\n\nThis isn\u2019t a fight over a national curriculum or putting education back into the hands of states. Federal law already guarantees that states \u2013 not the federal government \u2013 will decide what gets taught. Instead, this assault on public education is exactly that \u2013 an effort to undermine public schools all across America.\n\nI was a special education teacher. I know how much families rely on the Department of Education to ensure that their kids get the resources they need. To me, what\u2019s at stake in this fight is more than the future of a federal agency. It\u2019s about whether our country is truly committed to the idea of public education: the idea that anyone, no matter where they are born or how much money their parents have, can get a first-class education.\n\nPublic education is a foundational block in our democracy, both for informed citizens and to give everyone a chance to build lifelong skills. And that\u2019s what the Trump administration is trying to dismantle by closing down the Department of Education, an agency dedicated to building opportunities for kids all across the country.\n\nPublic service is exactly that \u2013 serving the public. When a secretary of Education is actively dismantling our public education system, it\u2019s time to reconsider her role in government. When the secretary is working to make class sizes bigger, take away aides for kids with special needs, leave college students at the mercy of financial predators, and make the whole department nonfunctional, it\u2019s time for new leadership.\n\nLinda McMahon has no business leading the Department of Education. 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