Bobby Scott: “We see the great progress we have made in getting more of our low and middle-income students to go into college…”

Treasury has no expertise serving students or institutions of higher education or monitoring servicers for accuracy.

The sweeping changes to the federal student loan system originating from that law are compounding the issues that have risen from the dismantling of the Education Department.

It’s difficult to articulate how impractical these proposals are, to say nothing of the pain and suffering they’ll inflict on students, educators and their communities, if they were to become law.

The repeal represents the federal government walking away from that responsibility, which jeopardizes the hard-fought progress we have made.