Brett M. Kavanaugh appears at his confirmation hearing at the Hart Senate Office Building on Sept. 5, 2018, in Washington. Kavanaugh at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in September. Last month, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos faced bipartisan backlash after she struggled to defend the Trump administration’s decision to zero out funding for the Special Olympics in testimony on Capitol Hill. Two days after DeVos’s appearance before the House appropriations panel, Trump quickly reversed his administration’s cuts. (Shawn Thew/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) acknowledged that some Cabinet officials were more “combative” than others and that they reflected the sensibilities of the man who nominated them.

Source: Washington Post April 16, 2019 22:10 UTC