Senator Al Franken
The confirmation hearing for President-Elect Donald Trump’s Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos is set for today (5pm).
U-S Senator Al Franken is on the Health, Education and Labor committee and says DeVos’ nomination raised some red flags for him. Specifically, Franken says he doesn’t think DeVos is a “a champion of public education at all and in fact she has said some very controversial things about why she does the vouchers, including to build god’s kingdom.”
DeVos’ hearing had been scheduled for last week, but Democrats pushed for a delay so paperwork and a standard ethics review on DeVos could be completed.