India, March 4 -- Former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) CEO Linda McMahon has been confirmed as the education secretary under President Donald Trump's administration by the US Senate on Monday.

Notably, Donald Trump has vowed to dismantle the department in his campaign promises, where he called for decentralising education and giving state government's the power to make decisions about education in their territory.

Earlier, he had jokingly asked McMahon to "put herself out of a job" in the process of dissolving the education department's powers.

Seventy-five-year-old businesswoman McMahon, is the co-founder of the popular wrestling league WWE, and worked in the organisation from 1980 to 2009 as the president and CEO.

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