Education Secretary Betsy DeVos appeared Thursday before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. By Valerie Strauss Valerie Strauss Reporter covering education, foreign affairs Email Bio Follow March 29 at 7:56 PM If you were hoping Betsy DeVos’s terrible, horrible, very bad, no-good week would drive her to quit as U.S. education secretary, this is going to disappoint you.
Her confirmation by the Senate was the first in U.S. history to require a vice president to break a tie. She has been living with opprobrium for a while now. The proposed cut to Special Olympics, which gives people with intellectual and physical disabilities the chance to compete in athletics on a world stage, struck a nerve with lawmakers.
In fact, the elimination of funding for Special Olympics had come from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, but DeVos’s job was to defend the whole budget. On Thursday afternoon, Trump announced he would allow the Special Olympics funding to be put back into his budget request. Congress would not have approved the cut anyway. Trump and DeVos sought the same elimination of funding in the two previous budgets, but lawmakers didn’t go along.
morgfair He gives big donors plumb jobs. That's why they're incompetent
She wouldn’t recognize that quote from the book Alexander bc she’s never been in a public school classroom ! She’s a tool of 45! She has no idea research !
She should have been booted a long time ago.
Her human suit does not itch her reptilian skin.
Why am I not surprised this isn’t an opinion article. The press tells you what to think instead of just presenting the facts and they don’t even try to hide it any more.
No she loves the negativity unless trump pushes back to make himself look good. Then all of sudden she never said that. Sound familiar (Donny)
No! But it’s time to fund private schools, give parents the choice of private funding for schools instead of liberal public schools.
She could care less!
She paid $250M for that job doubt she leaves without a refund
Another opinion column passed off as “analysis” by WaPo. Another chance to rehash their old worn out opinions just in case readers forgot. Another opportunity to stir up personal animosity toward DeVos who isn’t going anywhere.
I didn't but she should and yet she won't.
Dishonest media Disgusting
Absolutely not she is fairly clueless in her job but thinks she gets it. Not to fond of her take on education her answer is charter schools which are ill run and no accountability. Her preparedness in these settings are lacking just the facts are elusive.
There’s money to be made still.
No way, she had to pay a lot of money to get that job.
Arrogance!
Heartless people never quit, they hang in there to devise other ways to hurt those who expose them.
CruellaDeVos is a stain on America.
Cruella DeVos.
Incompetence is the strength of this administration... why would she quit... stupidity loves company, too
Did Richard Heydrich quit when things got tough? Did Joseph Mengele?
She makes Sarah Palin look like the good fairy godmother, the support for disabled sports need, more funding, a special fund that collects Condo mis-selling fines.
People like that never feel guilt. They simply feel entitled. Like so many rich people they feel rules were not meant for them, the chosen few. They have become above the laws and the poorer side of the Republican party allows it
Quit? She’s just getting started.
SecEd_Education is very, very good at grabbing onto a talking point & just repeating it again & again. RepBarbaraLee was excoriating her & Bets just kept to her bullshit. She'll never quit as long as she can undermine the mission of the Department of Education.
A person like BetsyDeVosED who is completely devoid of sympathy, empathy or any feelings has no way of knowing how bad she is. The ignorance lack of knowledge lack of experience lack of a soul keeps her from realizing how horrible she is or to even know she should quit. SAD!!!
Nope, she's got a lot more damage to do.
Why would mentally handicapped arsonist stop starting fires?
No she will double down & think of a new group to harm
no
Dust yourself off and try again, dust yourself off and try again
That woman would never quit. Like the wicked witch, we need to throw water on her.
You mean Betsy DeVil?
morgfair I was certainly hoping she would resign. But her stupid brain soes not enlightens her.
No, her plan is to destroy education as we know it. She loves all the damages she is causing, she goes to bed happy. She is a piece of shit
Perhaps you misinterpret her week. (as usual)
She is hopeless!
Clueless
It hasn't got as terrible as it needs to, to drive her out. Her place is down there with trump on the bottom of Dante Inferno.
She should 🤮🤮🤮
Think she might be enjoying being horrible
Why would you think Trump would select anyone better.
You guys are easy, trump is behind the special Olympic funding issue so he can come off as the hero....he’s a slight of hand con man.
Another Post “fair and balanced” headline.
Do you think Adam Schiff will quit after his bad week?
Wealthy and IGNORANT!!!! GOOD BYE!
We’ve seen what happens when we put sadists in charge of education.
She reminds me of the former mayor Bloomberg Education chancellor who was equally inept.
She won’t quit..until she guts education to pieces!
GOP: the party of the 1%
No. Betsy DeVos gets her rocks off from having power. Why else would someone of her wealth do what She's doing. She's certainly not doing it for the country because She's terrible at what she does. She's a horrible human being. Bitch is too nice of a word for her.
No she is sick as the one in the Oval Office.
Worse than a russian troll
morgfair BetsyDeVosED is a soulless elitist who could. not. care. less about other people. She is a monster
She is bonkers, doesnt even realized what happened
What do you get when you mix a whole lot of money, significant campaign contributions, and a Blackwater connection? A role as Secretary of Education that you have not clue as to how to serve in the best interests of teachers and students. Short name? The Betsy.
She was just following orders from her Supreme commander, General Bonespurs.
She's too clueless to know how fvcked up she is.
I'm betting our Education Secretary doesn't even get the children's' lit refernce
trumpty dumpty threw her under the bus and she’s too stupid to realize it
Nah!!! Ol Bets will just double down in some other Education related area. She's clueless & knows it!
Wrong again keep hoping
morgfair She’s in so very far over her head.
morgfair She LOOOOOOOVES her role. She’s not going anywhere.
Have middle schoolers writing for ya now, do ya?
She'll never resign.
LOL, you haven’t noticed her sleight of hand? She donates dark money to politicians who can help privatize jails and some military functions. Brother Eric Prince tried to privatize a military function for $10B. She’ll only quit when Trump leaves office.
Not this lady! She is about as arrogant as you can get. Not qualified for the job to begin with. Appointed by a person not qualified for the job he is doing. Worst Education Sec. in US history.
If I was thrown under the bus in the same dramatic, high profile way by Trump, he could kiss my ass and beg for my next high buck donation. Btw, she’s a train wreck.
morgfair She’ll never quit. She’ll have to be fired, or dragged away into the forest.
She should resign!
Shameless people never quit.
Hey, she bought that position, why would she quit?
SHE HAS DONE NOTHING WRONG.....WHY WOULD SHE QUIT THE DEMOCRATS JUST CANNOT CONTAIN THEIR JEALOUSY OF SOMEONE WHO FINALLY KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING....THE DEMS ARE A BUNCH OF BALL BABIES.
Did you think cutting the budget would be easy you bunch of idiots, occasionally there's going to be a few organizations that need to get their money back but not all of them get over it! and besides to get millions upon millions from the private sector! Good job Betsy! MAGA
WaPo = EnemyOfThePeople
You chose to run with that instead of the Democrats's terrible, horrible, very bad, no-good week? FakeNewsMedia
She has no moral conscious or spine, hence no shame. The craven do not care.
Opinion : Analysis :Perspective :
She has no soul. She doesn’t have, “very bad, no good weeks.” She feels nothing. Not even the wheels of the bus Trump decided to throw her under.
Good. Never EVER kowtow to the leftwing. They respect nothing. Hold nothing sacred. They only offer what they steal from others. They have no actual ideas, none. They will steal from others to give to their voters only. Republicans do for the country.
LEAVE HER ALONE BULLYS! Just like the REPUBLICAN NATURED CREATURES, to back out of their own doings when the heat is on, throw the person under the bus, then BULLY THEM! nomoretrumpingbullys BetsyDeVosED
BetsyDeVosED suffers from the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It seems to run rampant in thr TrumpAdministration
Objective reporting.
Another one of Trump’s pathetic appointments!
That was an act, Acted Directed Produced To make Individual1,the hero.
She not through sinking education
Well that would assume that she has a soul. Clearly not the case.
No she wouldn't quit it's called hubris
So sad and distributing!!
Hell no! There's more damage to be done!
WaPo fake news just confirmed DeVos is a great Secretary of education. Exactly whom the country needs.
Not as long as there is public money to pilfer
Betsy DeVos will continue on, as long as there's a single student left to be harmed.
That woman is a train wreck.
Dunning Kruger Pride
🇺🇸 couldn’t be that lucky
She just digs her spiky little heels in with no regard for who she is grinding beneath them.
She's part of Trump's haggery
End the Department of Education altogether.
Absolutely NOT!
No not really she thrives on trampling handicapped among other groups. Bullying is in her DNA
Wishful thinking
Too bad! Devoshasgottogo Devosisclueless
How many sycophants do you know that want t be anything else? If they had any independence and/or integrity they would never have taken the role in the first place.
Please this unqualified wench is having too much fun playing with people's lives and livelihood. This is the swamp that trump built.
WP apparently trolling for others to persecute and malign
She has no integrity. There is something wrong with her. Anyone with any dignity would leave.
She’s not done destroying the DOE
She should quit.
Nah. She’s just sucking harder.
Now I know for sure, Satan has a daughter
She loves to 'brown nose'.
She has no moral compass, we must hope that naure sreps in and a tree falls on her, squashing her miserable ugly soul
We are not that lucky!
She should have never been appointed.
I don't think she realizes she had a bad day. Afterall any publicity is good publicity
Nope started at her home
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I would have fired her.
No, but I did hope to see that smirk wiped off her face for a few moments. No such luck.
Why would she quit when she knows that she is at least as competent as her boss?
Shame level: 800000000
I didn't think it would. She has no shame, obviously.
She seems to be void of everything but the Dumbfounded look on her face 🤪 HA!
She paid way too much money for that job to get out now.
My guess is that she has been “terrible, horrible , very bad, no-good” for more than a week and that she is probably very comfortable in that skin. SheIsTheWorst
No, she paid good money for that job. At some point though when it’s politically expedient he’ll show her the door.
I never thought that. She has no conscience.
Does Judith Viorst ever get the nod she deserves when this phrase gets used?
Just abolish the Education Department already. It's a gigantic waste of taxpayer $$$
Because when the going get tough, Betsy DeVos keeps crapping all over our education. Worldwide, the US ranks 38th out of 70 in math (and no Betsy, that doesn’t mean we are in the top half) and 24th in science. But why settle for mediocre when we can be much worse. You go girl!
Bets wants to insure Eric’s pardon.
This isn’t journalism. It’s catty petty bullshit.
Nurse Ratchet will never quit.
With all of her money, why on Earth is she secretary of anything...
What a pathetic out of touch person! And trump hires only the best.
No.
No, she is clueless.
BetsyDeVosED realDonaldTrump Once again trump makes his swamp members look like the fools they are.
The week had a terrible devos in it...
She is good.
She likes being Trumps puppet
She doesn’t have enough class to resign. Besides, she rolled over and let the Boss kick her under the bus with nary a whimper, so she remains a court favorite.
Pure evil!
Talk about objective journalism!
What a terrible representative of Michigan BetsyGot2Go
We can only hope
For a ridiculously wealthy woman who's never worked in public education, never worked in a public school and was never actually any kind of educator, what do you expect? Has she actually ever had a real job . . .?
She's used to be the last one to know something.
Analysis hmmm ok
WE think she had a terrible, horrible, very bad, no-good week. For sadists like her it was Tuesday.
I don't think she cares what anyone thinks as long as she can find a way to channel more money in to private/charter schools at the expense of poorer kids. We clean their houses, drive their cars, care for their children, but we are not worth a decent education.
It's an ego and power thing with her.
Damn I got excited for a minute... although in this case Trump made her look bad If im not mistaken she was always for the Special Olympics Trump was the one who wanted to do away with it and then he finally had a change of heart
Devos is NO hero to the middle class or special education population . . . . I'm embarrassed and ashamed by her education cuts!
Or AmbassadorRice lie-a-thon
Guess what - nobody elected or appointe WashPost to make decisions on any topics. Now, continue to pizz into the wind.
Analysis: A detailed examination of the elements or structure of something. Stupid question/answer: Did you think Betsy DeVos’s terrible, horrible, very bad, no-good week would drive her to quit as education secretary? Guess again. “English Dies at the Washington Post”
Didn’t make lying witch Loretta Lynch quit....
Opinión: Fake news
Is this a serious tweet ? What are you in 6th grade? Just embarrassing.
No, I can tell by her fake smile. Believe it or not I was embarrassed for her.
A boomer bad at her job? Not a chance.
She’ll be sacked soon.
She's the best Education Secretary money can buy.
No. She enjoys hurting the lessers.
She’s there to make money for the charter and private school people only.
She is just not handling the theranosfraud very well. Poor thing
Of course not. Evil does not quit.
I doubt it
Some people never learn!
Devos not the problem! We don’t need a union driven beau racy call the dept of education. If it was so effective why do are students rank in the 20’s world wide this agency totally ineffective
If anything, it only makes her more resolved. She’s already a billionaire, what else does she have to do?
Bias showing!
Of course not, that would require her to have some shame.
is this writer racist ? BD try that parents could chose what the best school for their kids so what's bad about that ? 🤪🤪🤪
Stunning! You publish your journal as an unbiased source of news and analysis? Then you publish this? OMG, the bias wreaks. Have you completely abandoned all journalistic standards? You’ll find it’s very difficult to restore the standards and reputation you’ve readily abandoned.
She would never quit. Honestly she hasn't been in the news much lately because there had been so much going on. It's good to know she's still alive and evil.
She doesn’t understand education at all.
most days she gets to hurt millions of people w/out getting called out... life is good!
WaPo, can you please use less ink, it’s leaving streaks when I use it as toilet paper
why keep at it, Betsy, why?
Well, the FakeNewsMedia's terrible, horrible, very bad, no-good week whereby the RussianCollusionDelusion fell apart, didn't make any of you want to quit as 'journalists'. Of course, no leftist could EVER reach the bar they set for others. EnemyofthePeople
Cutting funding for deaf and autistic children along with cutting support for the Special Olympics was particularly troubling. Small amounts of funding were involved for programs with universal support which were singled out for elimination. Very cruel soulless actions.
I think she had a great week, I saw lots of triggered liberals.
She must still be making a lot of extra money out of the job.
Of course she won’t
She works for money....something she loves more than anything....
She should have been gone a long time ago. Evil witch.
No, she won't quit - BetsyDeVosED paid a great deal to buy this position. The question is why?
PartyOfNoShame 🐘
Why would I think that? She's been like that since day one.
She didnt do anything bad. She did her job.
Of course she wouldn’t. That would require BetsyDeVosED to have a soul, for which she does not
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