Betsy DeVos: Deep cuts to Special Olympics, student programs are warranted

[RandySF]

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday defended deep cuts to programs meant to help students and others, including eliminating $18 million to support Special Olympics, while urging Congress to spend millions more on charter schools.

“We are not doing our children any favors when we borrow from their future in order to invest in systems and policies that are not yielding better results," DeVos said in prepared testimony before a House subcommittee considering the Department of Education's budget request for the next fiscal year.

It was the first time that DeVos, a wealthy former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman and school choice advocate, had been called before a Democratic-led panel in the U.S. House to explain President Donald Trump's spending priorities.



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[samnsara]

1. They all know they dodged the Mueller bullet but know the NY stuff is gonna be way worse..

..so they are charging full steam ahead to get all their pet projects done before trump goes to jail..

[handmade34]

2. ...

this entire administration is disgusting

[Me.]

3. Why/How Is It These People Hate Everything Good?

[riversedge]

4. OMG since when does Special Olympics not help those involved. Cruel. cruel cruel

[vlyons]

5. We can't have nice things, because

the KGOP is hell-bent to cut and/or destroy every social program to shave a few pennies off the national deficit caused by their tax cuts for bilk-ionaires.

[DonCoquixote]

6. borrow for their future?

Trup did that when he packed a trillion dollars to our debt just to give people like you a tax cut.

[gratuitous]

7. Those special olympics freeloaders have had years to change their ways

It's time those leeches stood on their own two feet, instead of relying on crutches and braces and stuff. Just encourages them to be dependent. If they were really worthy of it, don't you think God would have miracled them back to full health and full use of all their faculties by now? Betsy needs to get paid, you know, and money wasted on programs for the poor and disabled is money that doesn't go to charter schools to line her pockets.

[woodsprite]

8. The Special Olympics was founded by the Kennedys

Eunice Kennedy Schriver.

DeVos probably looks at it as a double win - a Dem founded institution that supports kids with disabilities.

[CDerekGo]

9. I certainly hope

I certainly hope that EACH and EVERY one of these corrupt individuals is charged and brought to Justice when this 'administration' is finally removed.