When President-elect Donald Trump enters office and gets his Cabinet nominees confirmed by the Republican Senate, his administration will pursue a policy agenda that is markedly different from the current course set under the Biden-Harris administration.

That is bad news for first lady Jill Biden and her teachers' union, the National Education Association, which lashed out against Trump's nominee to head the Education Department as they realize their grip on power is near its end, according to the Daily Mail.

The NEA issued a damning attack on Education Secretary-designate Linda McMahon and asserted that she would preside over a continuation of, if not worse than, the policies implemented by the union-hated head of Education during Trump's first term, former Sec. Betsy DeVos.

Trump nominates McMahon to head Education Department

On Tuesday, President-elect Trump announced that Linda McMahon, the former head of the Small Business Administration in his first term and a co-chair of his transition team, was his selection to serve as secretary of Education.

Trump highlighted that McMahon is a "fierce advocate" of parental rights and school choice who would "fight tirelessly" to expand school choice to all states and "empower parents" to have more of a say in the education of their children.

The incoming president also said, "We will send education BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda will spearhead that effort."

Teachers' unions fear the worst under Trump

All of that and more are tantamount to fighting words and existential threats in the view of teachers' unions like the NEA, who fear the worst from a second Trump administration, per the Daily Mail.

Of particular concern are rumors of Trump abolishing or significantly dismantling the federal Education Department, over which teachers' unions wield substantial influence and control.

Those worries may be overblown as it would likely be impossible for Trump to get rid of the entire department without an act of Congress, though he could neuter the department and render it largely powerless through a variety of executive orders and policies.

NEA lashes out against McMahon, Trump

In response to President-elect Trump's nomination of McMahon as Education secretary, NEA President Becky Pringle said in a statement, "By selecting Linda McMahon, Donald Trump is showing that he could not care less about our students’ futures."

"Rather than working to strengthen public schools, expand learning opportunities for students, and support educators, McMahon's only mission is to eliminate the Department of Education and take away taxpayer dollars from public schools, where 90% of students -- and 95% of students with disabilities -- learn, and give them to unaccountable and discriminatory private schools," she continued.

"During his first term, Donald Trump appointed Betsy DeVos to undermine and ultimately privatize public schools through vouchers," Pringle asserted. "Now, he and Linda McMahon are back at it with their extreme Project 2025 proposal to eliminate the Department of Education, steal resources for our most vulnerable students, increase class sizes, cut job training programs, make higher education more expensive and out of reach for middle-class families, take away special education services for disabled students, and put student civil rights protections at risk."

Parents and educators will stand together to support students and reject the harmful, outlandish, and insulting policies being pushed by the Trump administration," the union leader claimed, and added, "The Senate must stand up for our students and reject Donald Trump’s unqualified nominee, Linda McMahon. Our students and our nation deserve so much better than Betsy DeVos 2.0."

The Daily Mail reached out to the office of first lady Jill Biden, a community college teacher and member of the NEA, to ask whether she agreed with and supported her union's sharp rhetoric and unbridled opposition to Trump's nominee, but did not receive a reply.