Whether DeVos is confirmed today or not, though, her candidacy has triggered hard discussions about key areas of education policy—in particular “school choice” and the re-segregation of US public schools.
The Muslim ban. President Trump campaigned on it. He asked Rudy Giuliani how to implement it legally. And on Friday—Holocaust Remembrance Day, as commentators have noted—he issued the executive order blocking individuals who hail from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country.