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MICHIGAN, Oct. 28, 2024 ~ They are one of Michigan‘s wealthiest and most controversial families, and they are donating millions of dollars to a billionaire’s political committee.
The Devos family has chipped in two million dollars to the America PAC which is the political committee founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, which spent more than $118 million to try and re-elect former President Donald Trump. Former Amway CEO Dick Devos and his wife Betsey Devos, who served as Trump’s education secretary, have donated a combined half a million dollars to the PAC. Other Devos family members have contributed a combined $1 million.
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Oct. 28, 2024 ~ The DeVos family is one of Michigan‘s wealthiest and most controversial families, and they are donating millions of dollars to a billionaire’s political committee. WJR Senior News Analyst Marie Osborne talks to Kevin Dietz about the PAC donations.
(CONTINUED) Betsy Devos resigned from Trump’s administration after the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, though the DeVos family members have been long-term and major funders of religious and Republican causes over the years. The family has long been polarizing in Michigan, with a Detroit News/WDIV poll in 2018 finding that Betsy Devos had a 60% disapproval rating in her role as education secretary.
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