Betsy DeVos rips free college as ‘socialist takeover of higher education’

Published December 1, 2020 10:35pm ET



Education Secretary Betsy DeVos criticized liberal proposals to make public colleges tuition-free.

While delivering remarks at the 2020 Federal Student Aid Virtual Training Conference, DeVos argued that efforts to cancel student loan debts would place a burden on U.S. taxpayers, describing it as an “insidious notion of government gift-giving.”

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