Betsy DeVos
Former United States Secretary of EducationWikipedia
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Sep 27, 2026
Julia ClareHOST
Susan!
Erin RyanHOST
Susan! Come on! Collins voted to advance Betsy DeVos' education secretary nomination out of committee on a 12-11 vote.
Erin RyanHOST
She then voted against DeVos on the floor, which produced a 50-50 tie that Vice President Mike Pence broke.
Erin RyanHOST
As New York Magazine's Rebecca Traister noted, Collins absolutely could have stalled her nomination, but she didn't want to take action until her vote didn't matter.
Neil SandersGUEST
And therefore, we'll be able to put up with very, very poor standards because, you know, that's what America wants to do.
Neil SandersGUEST
make a profitable trade deal uh and he wants to win and you know we're on a barrel and we've got nothing to trade with you um and basically so turning point uk was was it was it was sort of introduced a couple of years ago turning point usa we've already discussed it financed by the coke brothers so canis irons and charlie kirk and anybody that appears on there is a shill for a big business um Betsy DeVos also helps finance the Turning Point.
Neil SandersGUEST
And she's the brother of Eric Prince, who's the mercenary Blackwater Army owner.
Neil SandersGUEST
And, yeah, she's the current health education secretary in America.
Drew LaneHOST
Did you
Marc FellhauerHOST
see the new tragedy that the family has? What? Kaya's cat ran away.
Marc FellhauerHOST
Oh, no. Oh, my
Drew LaneHOST
God.
Drew LaneHOST
He was answering direct messages from people about addiction like he was an expert or something.
Drew LaneHOST
And I think sometimes when you're an addict, it makes you an attention magnet.
Drew LaneHOST
Addicts, you notice how they take over whole families? The family does nothing but worry about the one person with the addiction.
Drew LaneHOST
And it's crazy.
Jennifer BerkshireGUEST
And so that 10% figure that I cited did not come from anti-voucher folks.
Jennifer BerkshireGUEST
It actually came from one of the most powerful lobbying forces advocating for vouchers, and that would be Betsy DeVos's lobby shop, the American Federation for Children.
Jennifer BerkshireGUEST
So when I saw how nervous they are about the political future of the program, I thought, you know, this is really interesting.
Doug HenwoodHOST
Now, it's not just Arizona.
TadHOST
Yes.
TadHOST
I thought it was bad when Betsy DeVos was the Secretary of Education.
MattPANELIST
Yep, it was.
MattPANELIST
You're not wrong.
TadHOST
Those seem like the good old days.
TadHOST
When Betsy DeVos was the
Lee WoodsGUEST
good old days.
Lee WoodsGUEST
I thought you were kidding.
Mackenzie SteinerGUEST
It's had several years of episodes.
Mackenzie SteinerGUEST
literally showing that there were four billionaire families, Betsy DeVos is one of them, that in, for example, in 2021 to 2022, donated $55 million just herself.
Mackenzie SteinerGUEST
And there's all these other, several other billionaire families all towards anti-trans propaganda coming from a very, you know, Christian nationalist, far, like very extremist Christian notion where they believe that because they have massive amounts of money that God has ordained that they have the right to influence.
Mackenzie SteinerGUEST
And so what's happened is, The issue that anti-trans perspectives have been then, all this money has been funneled and all these different, you know, front groups have been created.
Linda Darling-HammondGUEST
It's had funding that comes and goes and hasn't been always done in a way that is universal and high quality.
Will BrehmHOST
So, you know, in this menu of different lessons that you've learned and you'd like to see applied to the different state levels, scaled up to the state level across America, do you think the Trump administration or the Betsy DeVos administration in education will actually try and use some of these lessons that you learned in any meaningful way?
Linda Darling-HammondGUEST
I think the action in the United States right now is in the states.
Linda Darling-HammondGUEST
There is a gridlock at the federal level.
SarahHOST
Yep.
SarahHOST
Riley, what MLM offers a variety of home, beauty, and healthcare products and was founded by the father-in-law of Betsy DeVos?
RileyGUEST
Avon?
SarahHOST
No, that one is Amway.
Jennifer BerkshireGUEST
And so that 10% figure that I cited did not come from anti-voucher folks.
Jennifer BerkshireGUEST
It actually came from one of the most powerful lobbying forces advocating for vouchers, and that would be Betsy DeVos's lobby shop, the American Federation for Children.
Jennifer BerkshireGUEST
So when I saw how nervous they are about the political future of the program, I thought, you know, this is really interesting.
Doug HenwoodHOST
Now, it's not just Arizona.
Zoe RomeHOST
Oh, great.
Zoe RomeHOST
So you might recognize the name DeVos from Betsy DeVos fame.
Zoe RomeHOST
She married into this extremely lovely family.
Zoe RomeHOST
How much of the MLM world is diet and supplement stuff? I mean, I feel like we talked about the earrings and the leggings.
45 MINS LATER
Kylie Van HornHOST
[laughs]
Zoe RomeHOST
Yes.
Zoe RomeHOST
It's like, "Be your own boss," and I'm like, "No, you're Betsy DeVos's grandpa."
Kylie Van HornHOST
[laughs]
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