Washington (CNN) Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will personally pay for a school choice scholarship that President Donald Trump awarded to a fourth-grader during his State of the Union address Tuesday.

During his speech, the President called on Congress to act on his school choice tax credit proposal and pointed to the Philadelphia student, Janiyah Davis, and her mom, Stephanie, who he had invited to sit in the gallery. He suggested they were on a waitlist for a state scholarship so that Davis could attend a better school outside her district.

"Janiyah's mom Stephanie is a single parent. She would do anything to give her daughter a better future. But last year, that future was put further out of reach when Pennsylvania's governor vetoed legislation to expand school choice for 50,000 children," Trump said.

"Janiyah, I am pleased to inform you that your long wait is over," he continued. "I can proudly announce tonight that an Opportunity Scholarship has become available. It is going to you, and you will soon be heading to the school of your choice."

It wasn't immediately clear on Tuesday where the funding was coming from. Trump has proposed a federal tax credit program that could make more scholarship money available to students, but Republican-backed legislation to create it has stalled in Congress.

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