Analysis: Did you think Betsy DeVos’s terrible, horrible, very bad, no-good week would drive her to quit as education secretary? Guess again.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos appeared Thursday before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. By Valerie Strauss Valerie Strauss Reporter covering education, foreign affairs Email Bio Follow March 29 at 7:56 PM If you were hoping Betsy DeVos’s terrible, horrible, very bad, no-good week would drive her to quit as U.S. education secretary, this is going to disappoint you.
Her confirmation by the Senate was the first in U.S. history to require a vice president to break a tie. She has been living with opprobrium for a while now. The proposed cut to Special Olympics, which gives people with intellectual and physical disabilities the chance to compete in athletics on a world stage, struck a nerve with lawmakers.
In fact, the elimination of funding for Special Olympics had come from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, but DeVos’s job was to defend the whole budget. On Thursday afternoon, Trump announced he would allow the Special Olympics funding to be put back into his budget request. Congress would not have approved the cut anyway. Trump and DeVos sought the same elimination of funding in the two previous budgets, but lawmakers didn’t go along.
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