Tuesday’s Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee vote on Education secretary-designate Betsy “Cruella” DeVos will most assuredly fall along party lines. With a Republican majority weighing in her favor, every remaining Democrat, according to Minnesota senator Al Franken, (and every other American with a heart in his or her chest, according to Connecticut senator Chris Murphy) will oppose her appointment.
DeVos, one of President Trump’s most controversial nominees, has been cast a failed reformer with untold influence and an uninformed plutocrat who tinkered around with education advocacy in her ample leisure time. A grassroots campaign to protect innocent children from her free-market machinations sowed groundless panic and flooded Senate offices with, probably fairly unpleasant, calls.
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