Mike Pence just made mundane history.
On Tuesday, the vice president cast the deciding vote to confirm Betsy DeVos, President Trump’s nominee for education secretary. It’s the first time any vice president has resolved a tie on a Cabinet nomination and that fact is little more than presidential trivia.
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