The portrayal refers to DeVos’s performance at her Jan. 17 Senate confirmation hearing, in which she could not answer basic questions about education policy and displayed confusion about whether the major federal law protecting the rights of students with disabilities was actually a federal law with which states had to comply. Her nomination was so controversial that she was approved by the Senate only after Mike Pence broke a 50-50 tie, the only vice president who ever did that for a Cabinet nominee.

During the news conference, Spicer brings out “DeVos,” saying, “I’ve been getting a lot of questions about Betsy DeVos” — mispronouncing her last name — “so we have her here to field some simple questions, which I’m sure she’s capable of doing.”

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McKinnon as DeVos points to a “reporter” and says, “Yes, the man.” He asks her this: “How do you value growth versus proficiency in measuring progress in students?” It was a question the real DeVos was asked at her confirmation hearing and couldn’t answer. McKinnon as DeVos responds:

Well, yes, I don’t know anything about school, but I do think there should be a school, probably Jesus school, and I do think it should have walls and roof and guns for potential grizzlies.

McCarthy as Spicer says, “Betsy, that’s enough for now.”

“Jesus school” refers to DeVos’s philanthropy to religious schools and her advocacy for using public funds for students to attend private and religious schools. The bear reference goes back to the Jan. 17 hearing when a senator asked DeVos whether she would agree that guns don’t belong in schools and she responded: “I will refer back to Senator [Mike] Enzi and the school he was talking about in Wyoming. I think probably there, I would imagine that there is probably a gun in the schools to protect from potential grizzlies.”

On Monday, March 13, DeVos responded to the McKinnon performance. She made a joke about it while she was delivering a speech to the nonprofit Council on Great City Schools in Washington, D.C. Here’s what she said, according to a transcript of remarks provided by the Education Department:

I want to begin by taking a moment to introduce myself — beyond the headlines and SNL skits — although it is flattering to be portrayed by Kate McKinnon, a woman younger than my oldest son.