Vice President Pence cast his tie-breaking vote in the Senate to confirm President Trump's choice for education secretary, Betsy DeVos. (Reuters)It took a historic tiebreaking vote cast Tuesday by Vice President Pence to get President Trump's education secretary nominee, Betsy DeVos, confirmed by the Senate. A few months ago, very few people would have predicted DeVos would be confirmed on a 51-to-50 vote, the narrowest confirmation vote of a Cabinet nominee ever. Senate Democrats are at war with Trump(Kevin Uhrmacher and Kevin Schaul/The Washington Post)Senate Democrats' unanimous opposition to DeVos is rare. But nothing about Trump's presidency is normal, and Senate Democrats are making Trump's picks go through extraordinarily high hurdles to get approved.

Source: Washington Post February 07, 2017 18:39 UTC