“When Education Secretary Betsy DeVos explained to a House subcommittee on Tuesday that the Trump administration wanted to eliminate federal funding for Special Olympics—specifically for education programs that support students with intellectual disabilities in school sports and the classroom—under heated questioning from Democrats, the moment went viral. But, after a day and a half of social media uproar, we learned on Thursday afternoon that the president would direct the department not to gut the funding after all.”
We at Special Olympics are grateful for that. And we are even more grateful for the many friends who rose up to fiercely defend the work we do, even allies we never knew we had.
