Five Trump trips to Mar-a-Lago would cover Betsy Devos’s proposed Special Olympics cuts
By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 27 at 9:41 AM It’s not Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s fault that her department has to cut its budget. That’s a mandate coming down from her boss, President Trump.
The Education Department budgeted $17,583,000 for the Special Olympics this fiscal year, an amount that obviously exceeds the average American’s annual income. It’s also an amount that constitutes about a tenth of the Special Olympics’ total budget. That total, $17.6 million, is also only a small part of the Education Department budget. The department’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2020 is about $64 billion. If that total were the height of the world’s tallest building, the 2,722-foot Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the amount spent on the Special Olympics would be an 8-inch tall stick standing beside it.
It would get you a little over 1 percent of the way across the George Washington Bridge in upper Manhattan. It would get you 48 feet.
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