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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigns following U.S. Capitol riot

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has submitted her resignation to President Trump, a day after "March for Trump" protesters invaded the U.S. Capitol building, Axios' Alayna Treene confirmed with a White House official with direct knowledge.

Why it matters: DeVos is the second Cabinet secretary to exit the administration in the wake of the deadly Capitol riot. Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao left the administration earlier Thursday.


What she's saying: “There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me,” DeVos said in her letter to the president on Thursday.

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The 116th Congress was the least productive since the 1970s

Data: Quorum; Chart: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios

"Twitter replaced floor debates in 2020," public affairs software firm Quorum writes in a new report, previewed by Axios, showing the 116th Congress as the least productive since the 1970s.

The big picture: Skyrocketing social media engagement and prolific numbers of bills filed that never went anywhere belie what happens when an increasingly divided and uncompromising Congress collides with an election-year pandemic.

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