#Unbelievable: Secy. Devos under fire for proposed cuts to Special Olympics funds

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Education Sec. DeVos faces scrutiny for proposal to cut billions of dollars from Special Olympics funding

 

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I'm amazed at how she can smile thru this. Despicable.

Everytime DeVos appears to defend some ridiculous new policy, such as no funding for Special Olympics, she cries foul when the media hangs her out to dry. Try doing something intelligent and they will sing your praises.

Goddamn, she really is a skinnier version of Prof. Umbridge isn't she?

Instead of cutting special Olympics for the disability of children and adults, cut off the private sector for schooling. As it is they don’t need the money because they already have their students paying to enter for school. Cut off their phones instead.

Why is the dept of education wasting billions on the Olympics. I thought that had it's own budget elsewhere. Now we are starting to see the issues at doe. Its wasting billions on things which are not k-12 and college related

She needs to go. Unqualified, arrogant, inept, incompetent...she’s only in that job because she’s rich, not because she’s able. 😡

Private sector would supply the funds, volitional not force.

Plenty of people donate to the Special Olympics. There is no reason to use taxpayer funds for this purpose. Maybe MSNBC can start a GoFundMe page for the cause instead.

Ditsy Bitsy couldn't think her way out of a wet paper sack.

Stop the lies MSNBC, 18 million does not equate Billions.

And isn’t she getting a raise? An underreported fact that’s getting lost in all of this. Shameful!

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Now I know where I have seen her

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Maybe she can sell one of those 27 yachts she has to help the kids.

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I am willing to bet these cuts are not the big scandal of her proposed budget. I would like to see what she DID allocate money for, such as elitist, private and religious schools and programs..

Your Numbers are Incorrect!

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow lost a whopping 20 percent of her audience after the release of the Mueller Report proved she shamelessly deceived her audience for more than two years.

This is person who is not working for the good of America children.

DeVos is an American oligarch whose money came from a pyramid scheme called 'Amway'. Since she and Dick and family had no trouble scamming unsuspecting vicitms, they are hardly troubled by screwing over some disabled kids.

Sorry but it's $18M in Special Olympics cuts, not 'billions of dollars'

Dept of ed shouldn't have anything to with Special Olympics, or the Olympics!, just get rid of that bureaucracy! USELESS

Millions not billions

We should just cancel 45 weekend outings to take care of many events.

DeVoss is taking us into disableist. Thornton, Larry Patrick. “Weeding the Garden: Euthanasia, National Socialism, and Germany, 1939-1945.” (external link) PhD diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991. (R 726 .T56 1991). Wake Up!

Cutting funding for special Olympics is immoral, inhuman and unamerican. Disgusting!

Ratings must really be dropping to put this up--- Liberals in denial! No collusion or obstruction-

Per MSNBC gives 15% pay raises to her executives. realDonaldTrump freezes federal workers pay for 2019 and 2020 and cut benefits. Pathetic and shameless human beings.

In her designer suit no less.

Dishonest journalism

This woman is a joke and does not deserve to have this job

Or maybe Betsy can fund them

She the Delores Umbridge of our time......where’s the Weasley twins when you need them!

I say we cut funding to Betsy and her brother.

Oh, but she says the govt don't need to help cause rich people out of the goodness of their hearts give money. Doesn't this make them slaves to the rich?

did she mention her tax cut?

Special Olympics is privately fund by the Kennedy Shriver foundation as well as many other corporate grants and private individuals. And will continue encouraging Olympians who have special needs to achieve dreams and goals.

Billions ? How much funding is there ?

Ummm Reps for Trump question: so this is making America great again? Taking away Special Olympic funding? Or taking away insurance for millions Or gouging Social Security and reducing Medicare benefits? Really ? Help me out out here my friends!

The Sec. Has increased the Special education budget that directly educates those students in need as she tried to explain. Not some fancy name program that has no direct benifit to special needs students.

A huge Pinocchio on this!The federal gov. doesn't fund Special Olympics. This funding was for a program in some schools called United Champion Schools for children with/without disabilities creating more inclusive, safe, respectful schools. Responsibility of States!

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As long as Trump got his photo op last week he doesn’t care!

Cut your salary and give it to the children if you care

Wow... You lost 50% of your audience? Hahaha!

They spend billions of dollars for the special Olympics? Billions?

Billions!! We're giving the special Olympics billions!! Why!!

NO, WHATS UNBELIEVABLE IS THE HUMAN CRISIS AT OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!!

She is just like Trump rich and heartless.

This Scoundrel has never been qualified for this position. She is a Hack and an enemy of education and children all over this country. The Republicans HAVE to try to keep this country as uninformed as possible. You cannot manipulate a well-informed populace.

Where do these horrible people come from?

Perhaps if she would attend a Special Olympics event rather than donating a percentage of her, unneeded salary, she'd have a deeper appreciation of the people the funding represents. We have to ask ourselves, if we have not lost our humanity, are we electing people who have?

'Cut billions of dollars from Special Olympics funding'? It was reported that she wanted to cut $17.6 million from the special Olympics funding, a far cry from billions.

We owe 20 TRILLION dollars....

Billions really? I read that is a 17 million dollar issue

Msnbc viewers drop 54 percent since mueller report,,,

At a time when parents are struggling to get their children better education, this is outrageous. DeVos should be fighting for more funds not less.

Heartless. Whatever happened to equity, dignity and respect. Oh wait! It will all be buried in a ridiculous wall. Or go to fund daddy’s little girl $100 million play fund.

She just showing the world how much she cares about special needs 0% when you got money like them why think of the small. That’s her thinking 🤔

The Federal Department of Education should be dissolved and certainly should not have anything to do with the Special Olympics or the Regular Olympics!

She was never qualified for that friggin job to start with

So only Dems are protesting or Republicans too ? Or do they think it doesn’t affect them ?

What do the Special Olympics have to do with education spending🤔

She’s vile.

Maybe Soros should fund that instead of buying attorney generals

C U Next Tuesday

Stop lying

Cut the SpecialOlympics and give yourself a raise is the definition of EVIL maddow CruellaDeVos

Let’s say we cut her job instead.

They say the temperature dropped 8 degrees when she entered the room...

Cruella de Vil

Massive tax cuts for the rich, defund Special Olympics, and more. REVERSE ROBIN HOOD I'm going to start referring to our president as...the Hood, Donald.

Another bad tweet! Check yourself and get it right.

She's been a total disgrace to educators since she bought her job with Trump!

Terrible!

A special kind of out of touch.

I did not know they had billions of dollars!! she is right!! cut that funding.

Why is the special olympics under education? And why is the government paying for it. Seems to me private enterprise should be sponsoring this.

Maybe the private sector can fund, not sure if thus is something that the gov should be funding.

Plus her jacket is hideous

She’s just another reason we need another blue wave in 2020

Who are these people? Nazis? This is horrible!

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