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Linda McMahon: “We totally redid [the FAFSA]. And Congress had said you must…”

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Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus

Published April 2, 2026 | Video Starts at 23:43

In fact, some high schools require it. Even if you're not going to get student loan, it's a lot of information. You get a lot of information about schools with it. So We totally redid [the FAFSA]. And Congress had said you must have it up and running by October of last year. Well, we had it up and running. In advance of that, I actually went to a couple of the beta tests for it to see how it worked. (23:43–39:59)

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“By 2030, if we stay on the course we're on right now, we'd be a billion short of workers that we would need.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 35:35-35:40
“It is clearly the president's executive order to do that.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 01:04-01:09
“If everything works the way we want it to, you will be the last Secretary of Education.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 01:18-01:23
“States, which already have 90% of their own budget to fund their educational priorities, the government actually provides about 10%.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 01:30-01:40
“There's no one size fits all in education, and every state needs to do what's best for that state.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 01:44-01:50
“I'm on a Return Education Back to the States tour. I will go to all 50 states.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 12:26-12:32
“I've been to about 33, 34 states so far.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 12:32-12:36
“We're doing a History Rocks tour. And I won't be able to go to every one of those, but there will be one in each state.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 12:37-12:44
“I think we're up to now just about a little over 20 at this point, maybe closer to 30.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 12:44-12:52
“This is part of the president's 250th anniversary of the country.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 12:52-12:58
“About the same for math in public schools across the country.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 20:15-20:19
“States are the ones who are being innovative that they're bringing in these programs.”
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“The science of reading Miracle, Mississippi took 10 years for the program to get put in place for the teachers to be taught how to teach.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 20:57-21:07
“The Department of Education was not stood up until 1980.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 21:56-22:02
“The almost $1.7 trillion in student loan debt is managed by the Education Department.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 22:50-23:00
“We totally redid at the Department of Education, the reporting portal [for foreign funding].”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 23:43-23:49
“We now have relocated and are co-administering that program [foreign funding reporting] out of the Department of State.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 23:59-24:11
“Congress will have to vote to shut down the Department of Education and remove it and not to have a secretary.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 24:49-24:57
“We're going to save taxpayers about four and a half million dollars a year just relocating to a smaller building.”
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“In many states, you cannot [hire experts like engineers to teach without going through the education program and getting licensed].”
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“There are states that are looking now to say, hey, you know what? This individual teacher could bring so much to the table.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 31:35-31:42
“There have been four states [where] parents called and told the school they didn't want us to come because they didn't want the partisan…”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 33:36-33:48
“With the president's program to bring manufacturing back to the country doing all of this, we really have to have those skilled workers.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 35:40-35:48
“Community colleges are doing now in working with high schools...students can take courses at the community college...and get credit for…”
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“Parents were saying, wow, this is only taking 30 to 35 minutes, whereas it used to take hours or sometimes a couple of days.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 40:02-40:10
“We put some caps, you know, now on student loans...for graduate programs.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 41:03-41:11
“I went to the Alpha School in Austin, Texas with Mackenzie Price.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 42:21-42:27
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Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 42:37-42:42
“I think AI needs guardrails. Yes, clearly needs guardrails.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 44:17-44:21
“It provides an individual tutor sitting at that desk and that algorithm is actually understanding whether or not this child is progressing…”
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“We're offering that to more and more states.”
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Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 49:06-49:14
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“Individuals can donate as much as they want into any of these scholarship granting organizations, but they can get a seventeen hundred…”
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Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 51:56-52:00
“The theory is that it would take money away from public schools. No, no, no. This is private money donated into the state.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 52:07-52:14
“Teachers unions are clearly pushing back, you know, against it somehow.”
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