Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro Rosa Luisa DeLauroOvernight Health Care: CDC pulls revised guidance on coronavirus | Government watchdog finds supply shortages are harming US response | As virus pummels US, Europe sees its own spike Trump HHS official faces firestorm after attacks on scientists Ahead of a coronavirus vaccine, Mexico's drug pricing to have far-reaching impacts on Americans MORE (Conn.) on Tuesday blasted Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Elizabeth (Betsy) Dee DeVosSpecial counsel investigating DeVos for potential Hatch Act violation: report NEA president says Azar and DeVos should resign over school reopening guidance The Hill's 12:30 Report - Presented by Facebook - You might want to download TikTok now MORE for proposing budget cuts to programs including the Special Olympics and those that support students from low-income households.

"The three education budgets from this administration have proposed the largest cuts to education funding in four decades. That's since the department was created in 1979," DeLauro said at a hearing on DeVos’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year, according to CNN.

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"Madam Secretary, I have to say, and maybe it's offensive: Shame on you," DeLauro, who chairs the Appropriations Committee's education subcommittee, continued.

DeVos’s proposed 2020 budget would decrease funding for her department by 12 percent for the upcoming fiscal year.

Though the budget proposal has a slim chance of being adopted under a Democratic-controlled House, one of the funding cuts laid out in the proposal that has recently garnered attention from lawmakers is the Education secretary’s suggestion for cuts to the Special Olympics program.

"We had to make some difficult decisions with this budget," DeVos said Tuesday while appearing before a House subcommittee to review the department’s proposed budget.

"I think the Special Olympics is an awesome organization, one that is supported by the philanthropic sector as well," she said.

The budget calls for millions of dollars in cuts to the Special Olympics as well as after-school programs and support for students from low-income households.