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Joni Ernst: “I did not think that is what the Federal student loan program was for.”

On the recordSeptember 29, 2015
I did not think that is what the Federal student loan program was for.
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Joni Ernst
Republican · Iowa

Editor's note · Context

Ernst reflects on misuses of federal student loans by students.

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