President Donald Trump's Secretary of Education, former wrestling mogul Linda McMahon, was unable to give a proper answer when Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) pressed her during a hearing Wednesday on just how much she personally stands to benefit from Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The bill being debated in Congress just narrowly passed the House on a strictly partisan basis, and gives massive tax cuts to the wealthy.
"Your family is worth about $3.2 billion. I’d imagine you would get millions in benefits from this tax bill," said Casar, an outspoken progressive lawmaker.
"I don’t know," replied McMahon. "I’d have to let you know."
The bill is designed to make permanent and further expand the tax cuts Trump passed in 2017, which flowed primarily to the wealthiest earners. This new bill is even more aggressive, outright raising taxes on the lowest earners while the benefits almost entirely go to the top 10 percent — all while cutting around $1 trillion from Medicaid, food stamps, and green energy credits, and potentially triggering hundreds of billions in future cuts to Medicare.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill will add over $2 trillion to the federal deficit over 10 years, which has even several Republicans and longtime Trump ally Elon Musk uncomfortable.
McMahon, who was installed by Trump with the express objective of overseeing the outright dismantling of the Department of Education, faced tough grilling on a number of other issues in the same hearing; she also acknowledged not knowing about the Tulsa Race Massacre.
