Linda McMahon is moving functions of the Department of Education to the Department of Labor and the Department of the Treasury through interagency agreements, according to a Fox News report. The outlet's summary said the shift is being used as proof of concept.
The Fox News headline says McMahon plans to "fire" herself out of a job and describes the effort as striving to show Congress that the Department of Education is not needed. The headline and summary together present the interagency agreements as the mechanism for that case, Fox News reported.
According to the Fox News summary, the functions are being shifted to the two departments. The summary does not identify which specific functions are involved, how many agreements have been signed, or how long the arrangements are expected to last.
Interagency agreements are formal arrangements between federal agencies, a general description rather than a detail from the report. The Fox News report does not say how the agreements were negotiated or what authority each receiving department will use to carry out the work.
The report does not include a response from McMahon, from members of Congress, or from officials at the Department of Labor or the Treasury. It also does not state whether the Department of Education has taken a formal position on the shift.
The headline's wording reflects Fox News's framing of the plan, and the proof-of-concept description is the outlet's own characterization rather than a quoted statement from an official. No other outlet's reporting on the matter was included in the material reviewed, so this account rests on a single source.