How is McMahon closing the Education Department?

In her quest to become the nation's final leader of the Department of Education, Linda McMahon has taken major steps to accomplish President Donald Trump's goal of shuttering the agency. Since her Senate confirmation in early March, the secretary has been directed to dissolve the department using all necessary steps permitted by law and Education Department officials claim she is using her broad authority to do so. This mandate has included everything from partnering with agencies that can co-manage the department's responsibilities to severely gutting the agency's workforce by slicing its staff nearly in half. A year ago Wednesday, then-President elect Trump praised McMahon's expertise, tapping the former WWE CEO and businesswoman to return education to the states and put herself out of a job. "Linda will use her decades of Leadership experience, and deep understanding of both Education and Business, to empower the next Generation of American Students and Workers, and make...