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Appearing before a House subcommittee Tuesday to review the department's proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year, DeVos said, "We had to make some difficult decisions."
DeVos's remarks came in response to questions from Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), who pressed her on the amount of kids the budget cut would impact.
"I don't know the number of kids," DeVos said before Pocan answered that 272,000 kids would be impacted.
"I think Special Olympics is an awesome organization, one that is well supported by the philanthropic sector as well," DeVos said.
This is classic GOP, such programs should depend on charity, by people who find a cause deserving. Not, the taxpayer.
The budget proposed by Trump and supported by DeVos calls for nearly $18 million in cuts to the Special Olympics.
DeVos has a history of not knowing facts related to her job. www.latimes.com/…
Here’s Betsy DeVos’s summer cottage on Lake Macatawa, Holland, Michigan.
Supposedly DeVos has donated part of her salary to the Special Olympics. www.priceypads.com/...
At 22,000 sf a very rough estimate at $500/sf gives you a construction cost of $11 million. She could easily cover that entire budget cut. Something is heinously wrong with this inequality picture.