World Wrestling Entertainment co-founder Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s nominee to end the Department of Education, has a confirmation hearing set for Thursday at 10 a.m., The Hill reported Wednesday.

Trump told reporters last week that McMahon was chosen “to put herself out of a job [in the] Education Department.”

Before Trump took office, anonymous sources told The Wall Street Journal that an executive order was drafted that would direct the education secretary to draft a plan for ending the department along with a vote by Congress to approve it.

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