Betsy DeVos has resigned after serving almost four years as Education Secretary. In doing so, she harshly criticized the president who appointed her. “We should be highlighting and celebrating your administration’s many accomplishments on behalf of the American people,” she wrote in her resignation letter. “Instead, we are left to clean up the mess caused by violent protesters overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to undermine the people’s business. There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.”

DeVos has received a lot of criticism since she was first appointed, particularly from teachers unions and the education establishment that her Reagan era predecessor William Bennett called “the Blob.” She didn’t have experience as a teacher, much less an Ed.D. degree like Jill Biden. She and her husband are billionaires, members of one of the two founding Amway families, and have been active philanthropists nationally and in the Grand Rapids metro area. She served several terms as Michigan Republican chairwoman; her husband Dick DeVos was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for governor in 2006.