Political Quotes

“in its relentless pursuit of canceling student debt, the Department of Education seems to have forgotten that Congress gave it a job to do. Last year, the Department announced its unconstitutional efforts to spend hundreds of billions of taxpayers' dollars, contrary to law. Of course, you remember that was the forgiving of student loans. Even after this attempt was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, endless efforts of debt cancellation seem to have taken precedent over the duty Congress is giving the Department. For example, after being on pause for 3 years, student loan payments finally started back up here in October of this year. Servicers, students, and Members of Congress pressed for answers about how and when this process would work. But instead of a plan, the return to repayment has been utter chaos. Iowans, and even some Members of my staff who have student loans, have waited for weeks to get answers to very basic questions about their loans. Due to sloppy recordkeeping, the Department has failed its audit for the second straight year in a row. In its hurry to cancel debt, the administration can't even provide auditors enough information to do their jobs. It isn't just previous students who are being left in limbo. There is another issue that is hard to get information on. So we have current and incoming college students who still can't fill out the application form that goes by the acronym FAFSA.…”