{"id":27718,"date":"2017-05-23T14:13:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T21:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27718"},"modified":"2017-05-23T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T21:13:51","slug":"liz-slams-devos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/23\/liz-slams-devos\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Slams DeVos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For many years the Republican Party has done everything in their power to deprive poor and middle class children of their right to an education.&#160; Then they get to spend the money educating rich kids.&#160; Also, the ignorant are more easy to control, and the only chance Republicans have to stay in power long term is to create an electorate with no critical thinking skills, one that will react as programmed to mindless Republican propaganda.&#160; Sadly, that is now possible, and Elizabeth Warren thinks it stinks!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0523Warren\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0523Warren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0523Warren.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Education Secretary Betsy DeVos finds herself under fire once again, this time for a proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/trumps-first-full-education-budget-deep-cuts-to-public-school-programs-in-pursuit-of-school-choice\/2017\/05\/17\/2a25a2cc-3a41-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.9dff85483b6c\" target=\"_blank\">$10.6 billion budget cut<\/a> to her department. And much as she did during DeVos&#8217; confirmation hearing in February, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is leading the opposition. <\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/senators-to-scrutinize-betsy-devos-trumps-pick-for-education-secretary\/2017\/01\/17\/3a0e6168-da8f-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.b6f91c43c7ab\" target=\"_blank\">January, when DeVos was handpicked for the role<\/a>, &quot;the big complaint was that this is a woman who does not believe in public education,&quot; Warren argued Monday. &quot;Well she just proved it.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;They want to take away 22 programs that help kids K through 12,&quot; she continued&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/elizabeth-warren-rips-trump-and-devos-106-billion-education-cut\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s her video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HwJTOSNny5c\" target=\"_blank\">The Trump-DeVos Budget: An All-Out Assault on America&#8217;s Kids<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HwJTOSNny5c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We must not allow this to happen.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years the Republican Party has done everything in their power to deprive poor and middle class children of their right to an education.&#160; Then they get to spend the money educating rich kids.&#160; Also, the ignorant are more easy to control, and the only chance Republicans have to stay in power long term <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/23\/liz-slams-devos\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}