Top Biden Aide Helped Fund Betsy DeVos Education Groups

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"A top Biden aide reportedly up for a role in the new administration ran an education-reform group that gave more than a million dollars to organizations led by Betsy DeVos, tax filings show.

Bruce Reed has been opposed as a potential member of the Biden administration due to his past support of austerity measures. Congressional progressives, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), signed a petition calling on Biden not to appoint Reed, who advised Biden on tech issues during the campaign.

While there has been little focus on Reed’s record in education, the subject was part of his portfolio in the Clinton White House. After leaving his post as Vice President Biden’s chief of staff, he took over the foundation of one of the nation’s leading charter-school boosters, billionaire Eli Broad (pronounced brohd), from 2013 to 2015, and served on the board of another Broad group until 2018.

Tax records show that while Reed was president, the Broad Foundation supported several groups tied to DeVos. One longtime DeVos associate employed by some of those groups now heads up policy for DeVos at the Department of Education.

The Biden transition team did not provide comment or respond to TYT’s questions. But the Revolving Door Project at the Center for Economic Policy and Research, which has been critical of some Biden administration contenders, suggested that Reed’s role funding DeVos groups undercut the messaging of centrist Democrats."

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