Loser: Betsy DeVos
4 winners and 4 losers from Congress’s massive $1.3 trillion spending package
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/23/17152122/winners-losers-omnibus-congress-spending
Loser: Betsy DeVos
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had some grand plans for the Department of Education, including budget cuts for public schools and after-school programs in exchange for $1 billion in spending to promote school choice programs, vouchers, and magnets. She wanted to eliminate a grant program for low-income students to go to college and slash $1.7 million from the Office of Civil Rights, a bureau within the Education Department that ensures equal access to education and enforces civil rights in school, which she said had grown inefficient.
She got none of those things.
Instead, Congress’s spending bill was a clear rejection of DeVos’s education agenda. The spending bill included a $3.9 billion increase in the department’s funding.
Going down the list, DeVos’s requests were ignored on almost every front.
The omnibus also included more funding for school-based mental health programs, which DeVos’s budget cut, and increased funding for the Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant, which goes toward financing low-income students’ college expenses, by $107 million. The DC Tuition Assistance Grant, which aids Washington, DC, students who don’t have access to an affordable in-state university system, got a $40 million boost. DeVos had proposed cutting the program this year and eliminating it altogether by 2019.
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Bwahahahah! 
their credit, ehrnst!
