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Linda McMahon, the US education secretary, has a uniquely fateful task: President Donald Trump wants her to be the last person ever to run the agency, an entity he’s long sought to dismantle.
Since returning to office in January, President Donald Trump has made a major push to put America’s elite universities on notice over political ideology. But the groundwork for the White House’s stronger stance was laid more than a year earlier.