Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the federal shutdown offers evidence that her agency is “unnecessary.”

In a social media post on Wednesday, McMahon said the shutdown has forced agencies to evaluate what work is really needed. She made the comment days after her department started firing hundreds of workers amid mass layoffs across the government.

“Two weeks in, millions of American students are still going to school, teachers are getting paid, and schools are operating as normal,” McMahon said.

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    I used to think that dying as an old man in my sleep would be the best way to go, and now I’m feeling that that would be a waste. I’m becoming comfortable with the idea that my life may have a twist ending that I wasn’t expecting.

    I can’t do anything crazy now, I have people counting on me, but that would change if ANYTHING were to happen to them, who are members of particularly vulnerable groups. I especially feel strongly about my child, and if MAGA did anything to them, I would have nothing to lose, and I would become a very dangerous person.