On Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats are in the middle of a 24-hour debate seeking to delay the confirmation of billionaire Betsy DeVos for education secretary. DeVos is perhaps Trump’s most contested pick among a group of controversial Cabinet nominees, who are overwhelmingly white male millionaires and billionaires. DeVos is a longtime backer of charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools. She and her husband have also invested in a student debt collection agency that does business with the Education Department. On Monday, Senate Democrats took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to begin the 24-hour debate in efforts to convince a third Republican to join them and vote against DeVos, which would sink her confirmation. This is Washington Senator Patty Murray.

Sen. Patty Murray: “Madam President, this nomination is dead even right now, on the razor’s edge. Fifty senators, Democrats and Republicans, will vote to reject Betsy DeVos, and we need just one more Republican to join us, to stand on the side of students and parents and public education in America, and say no to Betsy DeVos.”

Last week, two Republican lawmakers—Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski—announced plans to vote against DeVos, leaving Senate Republicans one vote short of confirming her. If the Senate vote is 50-50, Vice President Mike Pence would then cast the deciding vote—an event that has never happened to any other presidential nominee in history. Parents and teachers have been flooding the Senate phone system calling lawmakers to demand they oppose her confirmation. Nearly all Democratic senators are expected to also vote against the nominations of Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Andrew Puzder for labor secretary and Steven Mnuchin for Treasury Secretary—which The Washington Post calls a “historic rebuke of a first-term president’s Cabinet selections.” We’ll have more on the ongoing Senate debate over Betsy DeVos after headlines.