McMahon also noted that the state plays a major role in vaccination.
Ministry of Education Linda McMahon did not rule out whether the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could play a role in school vaccines.
In an interview with CNN on Sunday, McMahon was asked whether HHS and Kennedy would be involved in the school’s vaccine.
“Is that no?” CNN anchor Dana Bash asked her.
“That’s not necessarily a no,” McMahon said. “Now, the Department of Education is simply saying that it doesn’t control vaccinations or anything like that in the state through funding for children with disabilities.”
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In the interview, McMahon also pointed out that the state primarily handles vaccinations for school children, not primarily federal government.
There is no federal law requiring children to be vaccinated before they can go to school.
In an interview, McMahon expressed his support for Kennedy in terms of protecting children with disabilities, noting that HHS secretary is suffering from health.
“Chief Kennedy, who I was talking about about it, is an absolute passion for seeing students with handicap and disabilities, as he talks about how difficult it is for him in the neurological aspects he has dealt with throughout his life,” McMahon said.
Kennedy has a neurological condition called spasmodic deviation, which prevents the larynx muscles from tolerating spasms and provides tense sounds when speaking.
“When he speaks, it’s painful for him,” so Kennedy can understand “children who deal with such handicap and need help.” “I think it will become a passion in his own heart.”
On March 21, Trump said at the White House that he would redirect the educational department’s student loan handling to small business managers and send programs for children with disabilities and nutrition programs to HHS.
“We also plan on handling special needs and all nutrition programs and everything else,” Trump said. “I think it will work very well. Those two elements will be taken from the Ministry of Education.”
Trump’s orders have said that since it was created in the 1970s, it has “definitely failed children, teachers and families,” and that agencies should be closed.
The text released by the White House said it was meant to help states and communities instead “ensure students’ success” across the US.
The Epoch Times reached out to HHS Monday for comment.
