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BigmanPigman

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2. I also heard today that she is the only cabinet member with a $$$ million federal security.
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 08:42 PM
Nov 2018

Apparently she said she needs all this security, at taxpayers expense, since she was booed at one of her first school visits after she was told she would be on the cabinet.

"Education Secretary Betsy DeVos began receiving around-the-clock security from the U.S. Marshals Service days after being confirmed, an armed detail provided to no other cabinet member that could cost U.S. taxpayers $19.8 million through September of 2019, according to new figures provided by the Marshals Service to NBC News.
While it remains unclear who specifically made the request, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions granted the protection on February 13, 2017, a few days after DeVos was heckled and blocked by a handful of protesters from entering the Jefferson Academy, a public middle school in Washington. DeVos was confirmed as education secretary on February 7 of that year."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/u-s-marshals-service-spending-millions-devos-security-unusual-arrangement-n909001

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