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That a court with six Republican-appointed justices could hand down such a patently un-American decision is an indictment of America's rogue legal system.The New York Times is enjoying a rarefied hot streak in the field of prestige journalism. Since late February, the so-called paper of record has published numerous articles and op-eds that neatly capture the elite liberal worldview in all its cloistered absurdity. We're not even mad. It's amazing.
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For the first time in five years, federal student loan repayments resumed on May 5 — and the media is calling it “tragic” for borrowers.
“American taxpayers will no longer be forced to serve as collateral for irresponsible student loan policies,” U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said. “The Biden administration misled borrowers: The executive branch does not have the constitutional authority to wipe debt away, nor do the loan balances simply disappear.”
McMahon also noted that “hundreds of billions have already been transferred to taxpayers” and “for the sake of their own financial health and our nation’s economic outlook,” borrowers will now be forced to return to paying their student loans.
“We all know that this justification for a student loan pause is a drawn out relic that should not be around anymore. The problem is, when you’re trying to win a presidential election, it’s really difficult to say to people, ‘Hey, we’re going to start turning on your payments again.’ Joe Biden didn’t want to say that, so he didn’t say it,” Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America” says.
“Now, the media treatment of this, of course, has been exactly what you’d expect. It has been the typical situation where they try to scare everyone and say that Donald Trump is mean,” he continues.
On ABC News’ the “Start Here Podcast,” Brad Mielke made the case against student loan borrowers repaying their loans.
“It’s important to note that student loan borrowers who couldn’t pay their debts typically don’t pay them not because they don’t want to, but it’s because they simply can’t. So this has been a hardship on them over the last five years, and now for the first, they’re going to have to repay the government in which the Department of Education says they willingly took these loans,” Mielke said on the podcast.
“I love the spin here,” Stu says. “They entered into loans that they agreed to go into, number one. Number two, they received the money and utilized that to get a college education.”
“It’s not a hardship when everyone’s telling you you don’t have to pay,” he adds.
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The Trump administration has resumed collecting defaulted student loan payments for the first time since 2020, while federal data show that just a third of 43 million borrowers have returned to regular repayment.
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President Donald Trump's Department of Education announced Monday that it will soon end the former Biden administration's free ride for student loan borrowers in default.
The ED's Office of Federal Student Aid will restart collections on May 5 for more than five million borrowers who have not made a payment for at least 360 days. Another four million borrowers — not yet considered to be in default — have not paid in 91 to 180 days.
"As a result, there could be almost 10 million borrowers in default in a few months. When this happens, almost 25 percent of the federal student loan portfolio will be in default," read a press release from the ED.
'The Biden Administration misled borrowers: the executive branch does not have the constitutional authority to wipe debt away, nor do the loan balances simply disappear.'
According to the department, 42.7 million student loan borrowers owe over $1.6 trillion. It noted that most borrowers are either delinquent or in an interest-free forbearance or deferment period.
"Only 38 percent of borrowers are in repayment and current on their student loans," it said. "Resuming collections protects taxpayers from shouldering the cost of federal student loans that borrowers willingly undertook to finance their postsecondary education."
The department has not collected on its defaulted student loans since March 2020, despite Congress mandating repayment in October 2023.
Trump's ED slammed the former administration for its refusal to lift the pause on collections, which "kept borrowers in a confusing limbo."
It further noted that under former President Joe Biden, the ED "failed to process applications for borrowers who applied for income-driven repayment and continued to push misguided 'on-ramps' and illegal loan forgiveness schemes to win points with borrowers and mask rising delinquency and default rates."
Over the next couple of weeks, the FSA will notify those currently in default about the payment restart. It will begin sending notifications of wage garnishments "later this summer," the department stated.
ED Secretary Linda McMahon said, "American taxpayers will no longer be forced to serve as collateral for irresponsible student loan policies."
"The Biden Administration misled borrowers: the executive branch does not have the constitutional authority to wipe debt away, nor do the loan balances simply disappear," she continued. "Hundreds of billions have already been transferred to taxpayers. Going forward, the Department of Education, in conjunction with the Department of Treasury, will shepherd the student loan program responsibly and according to the law, which means helping borrowers return to repayment—both for the sake of their own financial health and our nation's economic outlook."
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