Boston Globe: Warren to meet with Linda McMahon, who she criticized for giving Trump ‘a blank check to destroy American public education’

Senator Elizabeth Warren will meet with Education Secretary Linda McMahon Tuesday, June 10, according to a letter obtained the Globe. This comes after Warren invited McMahon to a public forum on higher education affordability in May — an invitation McMahon rejected in favor of a one-on-one meeting with the senator.

Warren’s letter, dated June 3, refutes a number of claims McMahon had previously asserted in her own letter about the merits of the Trump administration’s higher education policy.

“In advance of our meeting, I would like to address eight false or deceptive statements made in your May 12 letter and request information to better understand how your efforts to dismantle the Department of Education are affecting students, borrowers, and families,” Warren wrote to McMahon. “You claimed to ‘refute…baseless accusations’ about your record in your letter. Instead of doing so, you presented a series of false or misleading arguments about your actions to cut funding and support for students and families, increase the cost of higher education, and impose new burdens on student loan borrowers. This is an atrocious record, and your attempts to defend it do not stand up to scrutiny.”

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