Every Senate Democrat voted against Linda McMahon’s nomination as Education Secretary, so Republicans own the incompetence she displays in her role. On Tuesday, McMahon testified before the Senate on TACO Trump’s 2026 budget and received a math lesson from Democratic Senator John Reed after she screwed up the numbers when MAGA GOP Senator John Kennedy questioned her.
Of course, the Louisiana Republican did not notice because his numbers were way off, too, so Reed jumped on it.
“I’m not a great mathematician, but I think you were talking about a trillion dollars?” Reed asked. “I believe $1.5 billion times 10 is $15 billion, and that’s a little bit off from a trillion dollars.”
“I think the budget cuts $1.2 billion,” McMahon replied.
“Well, that would be $12 billion, not a trillion dollars,” Reed calmly said.
“OK,” McMahon said.
McMahon was spanked by other Democrats as well. Washington State Sen. Patty Murray had to explain to her that “Those funds were appropriated by Congress, and your department was to allocate them, and it looks like the department is illegally impounding funding.” Jinkies, I’m seeing a pattern with Trump’s picks.
McMahon also claimed that math and reading education were “low on the totem pole” in 1979. She had to be corrected by GOP Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who said, “We were number one in 1979.”
