Trump announced that the federal government will not slash $17.6 million in funding for the Special Olympics — overriding his administration's proposed cuts after they sparked a bipartisan uproar
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the federal government will not slash $17.6 million in funding for the Special Olympics — overriding his administration's proposed cuts after they sparked a bipartisan uproar.
"The Special Olympics will be funded, I just told my people, 'I want to fund the Special Olympics,'" the president told reporters outside of the White House ahead of his trip to Michigan. "I have overridden my people."Federal money for Special Olympics education programs would be eliminated under the Education Department's fiscal 2020 proposal, but the plan faced little chance of becoming reality.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos doubled down on her department's proposed cuts on Wednesday, blaming “falsehoods and fully misrepresenting the facts" from the media and some members of Congress after her defense of the budget request during a congressional hearing went viral.that "I didn't personally get involved" in the decision to propose slashing the funding.
Only a portion of the Special Olympics is funded through federal money, which reported $124 million in unrestricted revenues, gains and other support for the year ending Dec. 31, 2017, according to a
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