P2025 links: Head of America First Action, which is the lobby arm of AFPI, a Project 2025 advisory group. Chair of AFPI with vice-chair Larrry Kudlow, a Project 2025 author and close to GOP fellow-mega donor Paul Singer, a major investor in Project 2025 advisory groups. 

Qualifications: A wealthy former CEO of World Wide Wrestling Entertainment, she was Small Business Administrator under Trump 1.0. She was a major donor to super PAC Rebuilding America NOW and Future 45 – both set up to support Trump. She is now co-chair of Trump 2.0 transition team, with Howard Lutnick. Also appointed to Connecticut State Board of Education in January 2009.

Disqualifications: Is a critic of public education, favors expanding charter, private, and religious schools. She was also recently sued and accused, as then-CEO of WWE, of overlooking sexual abuse of five children hired as “ring boys” by a WWE ringside announcer, a charge she denies. Critics also say she is disqualified to head the Education department because she lied in the past about having a BA in education, when her degree was in French.

Views: Supports parental rights in school choice and charter schools.