因昨天1月6日在美国首都发生的抗议人士暴力攻击国会大厦的行动，继交通部长赵小兰辞职的步伐之后，教育部长Betsy DeVos今天也因川普总统的不当言行而递交辞职信。

在给川普总统的辞职信中，教育部长Betsy DeVos写到：“我们现在本来是应该显示和庆祝你主持的这届政府为美国人民取得的许多成就的时刻。可是相反，我们却要清理暴力抗议者占领美国国会大厦和企图破坏人民的工作所造成的混乱（译者注：“人民的工作”是一个常用的英文表达， the people's business，指的是国会的工作，当时正在进行的是清点核实总统选票的工作）。这种行为对我们的国家来说是不可以接受的。你的言辞对造成这种局势的引导是毫无疑义的，这也是我个人的转折点。

We should be highlighting and celebrating your Administration's many accomplishments on behalf of the American people. Instead, we are left to clean up the mess caused by violent protestors overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to undermine the people's business. That behavior was unconscionable for our country. There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.

“年幼无知易的下一代正在观察这一切，在向我们学习。我认为我们每个人都有道德义务，展示良好的判断事物的能力，树立我们希望下一代遵循的行为模式的榜样。下一代必须从我们身上懂得：美国比昨天发生的事情更伟大。为此，今天我辞去我的职务，从1月8日星期五开始生效，这是为了坚守我对我们的宪法、我们的人民、和我们的自由所做的誓言。”

Impressionable children are watching all of this, and they are learning from us. I believe we each have a moral obligation to exercise good judgement and model the behavior we hope they would emulate. They must know from us that America is greater than what transpired yesterday. To that end, today I resign from my position, effective Friday, January 8, in support of the oath I took to our Constitution, our people, and our freedoms.