A Bush just praised Trump’s pick for secretary of education

Published January 13, 2017 5:59pm ET



Former first lady Barbara Bush isn’t attending President-elect Trump’s inauguration (due to her and former President George H.W. Bush’s age) but she did “enthusiastically” endorse Trump’s pick for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos.

“I am enthusiastically endorsing Betsy DeVos to be our next secretary of education,” Bush wrote in an op-ed for the Portland Press Herald

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