Trump education sec drops in on House Dems press conference with non-partisan message: ‘About the children’

PresidentDonaldTrump’sEducationSecretaryLindaMcMahonappearedunexpectedlyattheHouseDemocrats’pressconferencetodeliverabriefmessageonbipartisanshipwhenitcomesto“thechildrenofAmerica.”(CBS) EducationSecretaryLindaMcMahongaveunexpectedremarksinthespiritofnonpartisanshipattheHouseDemocrats’pressconferenceonWednesday,butshedidnotanswerwhenpressedonthetimingoftheDepartmentofEducationshuttingitsdoors. McMahonstoppedbytheDemocrats’pressconferenceoutsidethebuildingfortheEducationDepartment,whichshehaspromisedtodismantleinlinewithPresidentDonaldTrump’srecentexecutiveorder.Beforehand,shemetwithRep.MarkTakano,D-Calif.,andatleast10otherDemocraticmemberstodiscussconcernsoverrecentlayoffs.Thedepartmentannouncedlastmonthitwasinitiatingitsreductioninforcemission,impactingnearly50%ofitsworkforce. “Ijustwanttoexpressmygratitudetoallofthesefolkswhoca