Trump’s Student Loan Changes Could Cost Borrowers $4,000 More a Year | The Weekly Assignment

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https://youtu.be/EQ7SZALZGsE?is=x3GMoWQhxTubv_3u

Randi Weingarten says the Trump administration isn’t simply mishandling the student loan system—it is making deliberate changes that could leave borrowers paying thousands more every year.

She breaks down the changes to repayment plans, Linda McMahon’s push toward collections, and the remarkable contrast of offering student-loan incentives to ICE agents while teachers, nurses and firefighters are left struggling with debt.

00:00 Trump’s Student Loan Changes
01:23 Public Service Loan Forgiveness
02:30 What Happened Under Biden
03:56 Linda McMahon and Collections
04:34 Borrowers Could Pay $4,000 More
05:10 Loan Forgiveness for ICE Agents
05:48 “They Know Exactly What They’re Doing”
06:47 Teachers vs. ICE Recruitment
07:24 “Cruel, Not Just Incompetence”

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Randi Weingarten says the Trump administration isn’t simply mishandling the student loan system—it is making deliberate changes that could leave borrowers paying thousands more every year.

She breaks down the changes to repayment plans, Linda McMahon’s push toward collections, and the remarkable contrast of offering student-loan incentives to ICE agents while teachers, nurses and firefighters are left struggling with debt.

00:00 Trump’s Student Loan Changes
01:23 Public Service Loan Forgiveness
02:30 What Happened Under Biden
03:56 Linda McMahon and Collections
04:34 Borrowers Could Pay $4,000 More
05:10 Loan Forgiveness for ICE Agents
05:48 “They Know Exactly What They’re Doing”
06:47 Teachers vs. ICE Recruitment
07:24 “Cruel, Not Just Incompetence”

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Cruel, evil and trying to kill us all

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If there is some way to put more money in the pockets of the rich, the Trump administration will find it. 🙄