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Betsy Devos' Republican friends in Congress have put new provisions in their tax plan that open a back door to federally-supported school vouchers, which will give millions of dollars from public treasuries to private and religious schools.

When Democrats get confident, I get nervous. That’s true even when Republicans inflict disaster on the country – and potentially on themselves. The GOP's tax scam and growing inequality should prompt Dems to examine their own values first.

Republicans in Congress are rushing to enact billions of dollars in tax cuts, even though a majority of Americans oppose it. All across the country, angry people are protesting. Don’t expect them to quiet down anytime soon.

The issue of stagnant working-class wages, which outgoing EPI President Larry Mishel has worked so hard to make prominent, is being co-opted to sell GOP tax cuts that will primarily benefit the wealthy. Even so, he counts this as progress.

Students frequently suspended from school are at high risk of getting involved with the criminal justice system. The Obama administration set up new regulations to address the school-to-prison pipeline. Now Betsy DeVos is undermining them.

The GOP's House and Senate conferees, everyone imagined, would make a compromise on tax cuts that fell somewhere between their plans. They did no such thing. They simply found a way to give even more to America’s super-rich.