Betsy DeVos Joins Growing List of<br />Resignations in Trump Administration.<br />On Thursday, Education Secretary<br />Betsy DeVos submitted her letter of resignation<br />to President Donald Trump. .<br />In the letter, which was obtained by<br />the ‘NYT,’ DeVos cited the rampage at the<br />Capitol as her reason for resigning. .<br />We should be highlighting and celebrating<br />your administration’s many accomplishments<br />on behalf of the American people … Instead, we<br />are left to clean up the mess caused by violent protesters overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to undermine the people’s business, Betsy DeVos, via 'NYT'.<br />She called the chaos caused by Trump’s supporters as “unconscionable.”.<br />That behavior was unconscionable for our country … There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.<br />DeVos is the second cabinet-level official to step down from their position. .<br />Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who also resigned on Thursday, said she was “deeply trouble” by the Capitol riot. .<br />Yesterday, our country experienced a traumatic and entirely avoidable event as supporters of the President stormed the Capitol building … it has deeply trouble me in a way that I simply cannot set aside. .<br />Several other Trump administration officials have also since resigned including Mick Mulvaney, special envoy to Northern Ireland, Matthew Pottinger, Trump’s deputy national security adviser.<br />John Costello, a senior cybersecurity official, Tyler Goodspeed, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.<br />Stephanie Grisham, Melania Trump’s chief of staff, Rickie Niceta, Melania’s social secretary and Sarah Matthews, deputy White House press secretary.
