After the Supreme Court ruling this week, President Donald Trump is hailing Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s leadership in returning power and funding to the states to make education more “efficient” and affordable again.

“I was very pleased with the ruling from the Supreme Court, because what we did when we first came in was to take a look at the department, to take a look at what could have been, you know, just too heavy in personnel,” McMahon told Newsmax’s “National Report” in an exclusive interview with her on the White House north lawn. “We weren’t just trying to make radical cuts just to shrink the size of the department.

“We viewed it with exactly the right eye,” she continued, “to see what functions are needed, how many people we needed to do that, etc.

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