Betsy DeVos is now saying she would be willing to be part of a second Trump administration

Just two days after the failed January 6th, 2021 insurrection in Washington, Betsy DeVos submitted a letter of resignation from the Trump Administration.

I wrote a response to the resignation letter from the former Secretary of Education, pointing out numerous aspects of the letter that were disingenuous and cowardly.

Despite Betsy DeVos’s attempt at distancing herself from Donald Trump, she is now saying that she would be willing to be part of a second Trump Administration if asked. 

The New Republic reported – as did many other news outlets – that DeVos said she would return to the post of Secretary of Education, but with one condition, she would like to serve with the “goal of phasing out the Department of Education as we tried to do through the budgetary process in the first administration.”

The New Republic article went on to say: 

DeVos also said that she would like to pass “a major education freedom bill in the form of a tax credit mechanism,” alluding to school choice vouchers at the federal tax level, part of conservatives’ grand plans to eventually get rid of public education in America. 

I have no doubt that Betsy DeVos would do the things she said she would do if Donald Trump asked her to head up the Department of Education again. During her stint as Secretary of Education from 2017 – through her resignation, GRIID wrote dozens of articles providing analysis of her actions during those years, which you read at the GRIID Betsy DeVos Watch section.

Betsy DeVos was in Detroit recently at a GOP fundraiser when she made these comments about her willingness to be part of another Trump Administration. And while she has not personally endorsed Trump as the GOP presidential candidate for the 2024 Election, DeVos did say she will, “definitely be supporting the Republican ticket.” Just more evidence of the ruthlessness of Betsy DeVos and the DeVos family.