CAMEROTA: President Trump's education secretary, Betsy DeVos, is coming under fire for her plan to cut all federal funding to the Special Olympics. DeVos is defending the decision, insisting the charity can get a lot of money from private donors. CNN's Stephanie Elam is live in Los Angeles with more. What's this about, Stephanie?</s>STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Alisyn. Overall, when you take a look at the proposed budget for the Department of Education, they're looking to cut some 29 programs to save about $6.7 billion. But there's one program in particular that has people up in arms, and that is Special Olympics.</s>ELAM (voice-over): Dustin Plunkett faced some hard times as a child. At home --</s>DUSTIN PLUNKETT, SPECIAL OLYMPICS ATHLETE & OUTREACH MANAGER: Nobody in my family really knew how to support me because of my cleft palate and my intellectual disability.</s>ELAM: -- and at school, where he was bullied until he discovered Special Olympics. Some 20 years later, not only is he an athlete, he's also an outreach manager and inspirational speaker for Special Olympics, Southern California.</s>PLUNKETT: Ninety-seven percent of seniors on high school campuses say that Special Olympics made an impact in their life, and that's why the funding is so important to us.</s>ELAM: The funding that Plunkett is worried about is federal. The Department of Education's proposed budget for 2020 would eliminate all grant money for the nonprofit, dropping it from more than $17.5 million to zero.
Betsy DeVos Proposes $18 Million in Cuts to Special Olympics.