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Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos doesn’t think she’ll be asked to work again in a potential second Trump administration. If she was offered a job, she would be open to it, DeVos told The Detroit News—but only to get rid of the Education Department.
“I would want to do so only if it was with the goal of phasing out the Department of Education as we tried to do through budgetary process in the first administration,” DeVos told The Detroit News last week, adding that she also wants a committee to pass “a major education freedom bill in the form of a tax credit mechanism at the Department of Treasury.”
The Trump campaign and Republican Party’s platform has called for abolishing the Education Department. Meanwhile, a conservative policy manual for a conservative presidential administration known as Project 2025 outlines how to get rid of the agency. That includes passing legislation to dismantle the department. Under the plan, the Office for Civil Rights would move to the Department of Justice and the Treasury Department would handle the federal student loan portfolio, among other changes.
DeVos resigned from her post leading the Education Department following the Jan. 6 insurrection, specifically citing former President Trump’s role in the events of that day. “There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me,” she wrote in her resignation letter.
She hasn’t endorsed Trump’s presidential bid, though she told the Detroit newspaper she’s “definitely supporting the Republican ticket.”
