Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon dropped in on House Democrats’ press conference Wednesday “to make sure that everyone has both sides of the story,” she told Newsmax.

“We’d had a good meeting here at the Department of Education. We’d had a very candid conversation,” she said Thursday on “National Report.” “And I responded to questions. And it was really supposed to be an off-the-record meeting. And then I discovered that they were having a press conference outside right on the education property.

“So, I just said, ‘Well, I think I’ll just go down and join and make sure that everyone has both sides of the story.’ So that’s exactly what I did. They welcomed me to the podium. I think I would have taken charge of the podium anyway, but it was it was very nice that they did invite me up to speak, and so I just reiterated what we had talked about in the meeting and went on my merry way.”

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