5 Things Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Ruined This Month
Betsy DeVos runs her DoE like a messy episode of "House Hunters International."
What the hell is happening at The Department of Education? The kookiest corner of Washington, run by billionaire Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who has ties to Blackwater and not one — but several — private yachts in her family name, has a lot happening, none of which is a robust interest in defending public education, one of the biggest entitlement programs in the country.
In the last few weeks, Betsy DeVos and her underlings, directed by the Trump administration, have shown the limits of conservative policy-making when they failed to defend their questionably legal, or rather, unquestionably illegal, moves from the auspices of federal judges. In the past few weeks alone, DeVos has been held in contempt in court (more on that later), a DoE official stepped down and called for debt forgiveness (we’ll get into it!) and news broke that DeVos’ DoE rejected almost every single applicant for a loan forgiveness program (for what reason, you ask?) That’s not where the story ends. As the DoE is basically one big reality show, we’re recapping what went down over the past few weeks, so grab your favorite snack and settle in.
A-Plot: Betsy DeVos Held Was Held in Contempt of Court
Heavens to Betsy! This week, a federal judge fined DeVos $100,000 and held her in contempt of court after they found that DeVos had violated a court order to stop collecting loans CONTINUE READING: 5 Things Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Screwed Up This Month | Fatherly
