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DeVos Grilled Over Federal Budget, Special Olympics

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U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos testifies during a Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee discussing proposed budget estimates and justification for FY2020 for the Education Department in Washington.

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For the third year in a row, President Trump submitted a fiscal year 2020 budget request to Congress that included cuts to education spending. If the last two years, and well, the last several decades, are any guide, Congress will decide to increase spending instead.

One new wrinkle this year: the House, including the Education and Workforce Committee, is now controlled by Democrats. They asked

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