Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has once again been garnering terrible headlines for the Trump administration. The billionaire heiress, whose family were some of Donald Trump’s largest donors during the 2016 campaign, sat before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee to defend slashing $18 million from Special Olympics funding, as well as other significant cuts to other special-needs education funds.

The blowback was swift as Democrats lined up to take their shots in the committee meeting. Even some Republicans recoiled. Sen. Roy Blunt (Missouri), a former teacher himself, quickly came out and said the funds would not be slashed.

DeVos issued a statement to “correct the record”, but it really was just a defense of the cuts. She doubled down, saying that, “given our current budget realities, the federal government cannot fund every worthy program, particularly ones that enjoy robust support from private donations.”

And then, just like that, Donald Trump changed his mind and publicly turned on his education secretary to promise that the Special Olympics budget would not be slashed. He left DeVos hanging in the wind.