Linda McMahon

Rule Changes

Overseeing the Title IX recodification

The Education Department formally removed the Biden administration's 2024 Title IX rewrite from federal code on Sept. 29, restoring the 2020 rule that treats sex as a binary category. The 2024 rule had expanded protections to sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex stereotypes, and it set a lower bar for what counts as harassment.

Updated Sep 30

Rule Changes

Leading the department's dismantling from the inside

The federal government has managed student loans from the same place for decades: the Education Department's Federal Student Aid office. On March 19, the Treasury Department began absorbing that function.

Updated May 30

Rule Changes

Named in the broader campaign and correspondence over grants and conditions

Harvard won. A federal judge said the government unlawfully cut off Harvard's research money—then ordered the taps turned back on. Now the Trump administration is appealing, keeping a cloud over a sprawling research portfolio that runs from medical breakthroughs to national-security science.

Updated May 15