Bobby Scott: “So that means we spend the Social Security plus, and then spend even more than that after we have spent the surplus?”

Student loan debt now exceeds $1.7 trillion. Borrowers need clear guidance and certainty.

Will actually contribute to the creation of miles of bureaucratic red tape, inconsistent education policy and enforcement across the federal government and a significant waste of the taxpayers’ money.

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 administration had been illegally creating these interagency agreements, which are extremely inefficient and wasteful, and also result in inconsistent enforcement of federal education policy.