Schumer blasts Pence’s vote for DeVos: ‘Rigged Cabinet’

Published February 7, 2017 6:06pm ET



Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the Republicans’ need to get Vice President Pence to break a 50-50 tie to confirm Betsy DeVos as secretary of education shows President Trump is building a “rigged Cabinet.”

“Today @VP Mike Pence did something no one else has ever done: cast the tie breaking vote on his own cabinet nominee. #RiggedCabinet,” Schumer tweeted.

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