Republicans bluntly challenged Betsy DeVos’s proposed budget for the Department of Education.
By bluntly, I mean Roy Blunt, Republican Chair of the Senate Committee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies.
The Missouri Republican said: “This is a difficult budget request to defend. I think it’s likely that the kinds of cuts that are proposed in this budget will not occur, so we need to fully understand your priorities and why they are your priorities.” He added: “the outright elimination of several large formula grant programs — like the 21st Century Learning Centers — I think will be all but impossible to get through this committee.”
Another Republican, Sen. John Neely Kennedy, chided DeVos over her complete reliance on the private sector to fund education in America: “Education is not mayonnaise, and, frankly, the day we start treating the education of our children like we do the marketing of a condiment is the day we have given up on our kids.” For more, see Valerie Strauss's article in today's Washington Post, here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/06/06/what-we-just-learned-from-betsy-devoss-painful-appearance-before-congress/?utm_term=.67de228b9301
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