Betsy DeVos has cut 600 staff positions at the Department of Education
by Eddie Scarry
| December 02, 2019 12:48 PM
Remember the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as education secretary? It feels kind of quaint now, because congressional Democrats have so completely outdone their hysterics in the time since.
For the first time, a vice president had to break the tie in favor of confirmation, all because liberals didn’t like that DeVos was wealthy and unlikely to devote her energy as secretary to ensuring that the department worked for teachers unions rather than students.
If Democrats and the national media weren’t in a sticky mess right now over impeachment, they might notice that DeVos has done some things that might concern them. And she still has at least a year left to do more.
The Washington Examiner's editorial board recently checked in with DeVos for her thoughts on her tenure as secretary.
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