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Betsy DeVos. Elisabeth Dee DeVos (/ dəˈvɒs / də-VOSS; née Prince; born January 8, 1958) is an American politician, philanthropist, and former government official who served as the 11th United States secretary of education from 2017 to 2021. DeVos is known for her conservative political activism, [1] and particularly her support for school ...
Former Trump Education secretary, in an exclusive interview, spoke for first time about her decision to resign after Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol. Betsy DeVos: Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 were ...
Prince is the younger brother of former United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos [102] [103] and the brother-in-law of former Alticor president Dick DeVos. [104] [b] Prince's first wife, Joan Nicole, [107] [108] died of cancer in 2003 at the age of 36. [109] She introduced Prince to Catholicism. [107] They had four children. [110]
Betsy DeVos President-elect Trump officially announced the selection of former RNC member Betsy DeVos from Michigan as Secretary of Education on November 23, 2016. Originally scheduled for January 11, but was postponed because the Office of Government Ethics had not completed its review of DeVos' financial holdings and potential conflicts of ...
Betsy DeVos and other members of the wealthy family went on a spending blitz, donating $1.45 million to Republican members over a seven-week period — an average of $25,000 a day — successfully ...
His wife, Betsy DeVos, is the former chairperson of the Michigan Republican Party and the former Secretary of Education under President Donald Trump. She is the daughter of billionaire industrialist Edgar Prince , and sister of Blackwater USA founder Erik Prince .
The Trump campaign's big bet on a new GOTV strategy worries some Republicans NBC Universal Trump allies worry his ties to far-right activist Laura Loomer could cost him Georgia and North Carolina
As president, Trump chose Republican financier Betsy DeVos, a prominent Michigan charter school advocate, as Secretary of Education. [106] The nomination was highly controversial; [ 107 ] The Washington Post education writer Valerie Strauss wrote that "DeVos was considered the most controversial education nominee in the history of the nearly 40 ...