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Education officials under the Trump administration are pushing back against former President Joe Biden\u2019s student loan forgiveness program, which they say will be phased out in the coming weeks. They also criticized private universities for what they described as a \u201cgreedy\u201d sense of entitlement that has fueled a broken and unsustainable higher education funding model.<\/p>\n

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Fox News anchor Dana Perino summed up the administration\u2019s stance on Fox & Friends Tuesday, stating that \u201cthe gravy train is over\u201d for bloated, bureaucratic university systems that have relied on the federal government to supply unlimited funding to students while steadily raising tuition rates. \u201cRemember, it was Nancy Pelosi who said, \u2018Wait a minute, Joe Biden doesn\u2019t have the legal authority to do this,\u2019\u201d Perino said during the segment, a reference to a series of legal setbacks suffered by the former president when his executive orders were successfully challenged in court. \u201cThey had false hopes, false promises to people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Perino added that she sympathizes with those who have unaffordable loans, but that shouldn\u2019t absolve them of their obligation to taxpayers. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean that the system couldn\u2019t be changed or that the interest rate can\u2019t be lowered, but they are going to have to pay it back,\u201d she said. Meanwhile, Education Secretary Linda McMahon defended the Trump administration\u2019s decision this week to resume student loan collections after years of extended pauses. On Monday, the Department of Education announced it would begin contacting 5.3 million borrowers who have fallen into default due to the prolonged suspension of payments.<\/p>\n

Both President Biden and university administrators made \u201cempty promises to students while pocketing their loan dollars,\u201d McMahon wrote in a fiery Wall Street Journal op-ed this week. \u201cColleges and universities call themselves nonprofits, but for years they have profited massively off the federal subsidy of loans, hiking tuition and piling up multibillion-dollar endowments while students graduate six figures in the red,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cA widely cited 2015 study found that for every dollar of increased federal caps on subsidized loans, colleges raised tuition by 60 cents,\u201d she continued. \u201cMany of the degree-granting programs that qualify for student loans are worthless on the job market, but colleges continue to accept students to these programs and encourage them to borrow to pay for them.\u201d Student loan relief was first introduced during the initial Trump administration as a temporary response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it has since evolved into a politically charged issue that has been cautiously debated but largely left unresolved, even as outstanding balances have continued to grow for most borrowers.<\/p>\n

McMahon blasted Biden for dangling \u201cthe carrot of loan forgiveness in front of young voters\u201d during his 2020 campaign, even though he knew he \u201cnever had the authority to forgive student loans across the board.\u201d The Biden administration\u2019s resulting student loan repayment delays and subterfuge have racked up a \u201cmassive debt that is now long past due.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am announcing the end of this dishonest and irresponsible policy. We will conform the department\u2019s repayment options to federal court decisions and end the Biden-era practice of zero-interest, zero-accountability forbearances that are pushing borrowers into loan delinquency and default,\u201d she wrote. \u201cOn May 5, we will begin the process of moving roughly 1.8 million borrowers into repayment plans and restarting collections of loans in default. Borrowers who don\u2019t make payments on time will see their credit scores go down, and in some cases, their wages automatically garnished.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy? Not because we want to be unkind to student borrowers. Borrowing money and failing to pay it back isn\u2019t a victimless offense. Debt doesn\u2019t go away; it gets transferred to others. If borrowers don\u2019t pay their debts to the government, taxpayers do,\u201d McMahon added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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