Betsy Devos Vote

The two became the first republican senators to break with any of.

Betsy devos vote. She is the former chair of both the american federation for children and the philanthropy roundtable board of directors and served on a number of other national and local boards including artprize american enterprise institute foundation for excellence in education and the devos institute for arts management at the university of maryland. The former chief of staff to education secretary betsy devos joined an anti donald trump group being led by former white house officials. Read our story for. Her voucher bill is a brazen scheme that would take 50 billion from public schools over 10 years.

Senate voted tuesday to confirm betsy devos to be the nation s new education secretary. A 50 50 deadlock over her confirmation was broken by vice president. Devos was one of trump s most controversial picks and after her senate confirmation vote ended in a 50 50 tie she became the first cabinet member to take office via the vice president casting a tie breaking vote. The house labor and education committee voted on legislation thursday that would overturn education secretary betsy devos new policy on student debt discharge that goes into effect on july 1st.

For the first time in senate history vice president mike pence voted to break the tie in a confirmation vote. Betsy devos has consistently pushed to expand federal vouchers that will take money from public schools to give to private schools. Final vote in the senate for confirmation of betsy devos as secretary of education full video of vote from c span february 2 2017 the confirmation hearing for devos was initially scheduled for january 10 2017 but was delayed for one week after the office of government ethics requested more time to review her financial disclosures. The senate voted to confirm betsy devos as education secretary.

Josh venable who worked for devos from 2017 to 2018 joined the republican political alliance for integrity and reform repair as an adviser politico reported thursday. All democrats opposed devos along with two republicans. The senate confirmed betsy devos for education secretary today after a historic tie breaker from vice president mike pence.