Trump signs executive order
While Joe Biden was president, he created a program whereby people could have some or all of their student loans forgiven by going into public service.
Naturally, the left completely abused this and somehow figured out that all anyone had to do was go to work for a non-profit organization to claim that they were working in public service. Democrats never reined this in because they tend to believe that all non-profits are do-good organizations, but that’s simply not true.
Trump just signed an executive order extensively limiting who will actually be eligible for this program.
The Hill reports:
Trump signs executive order limiting eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday to exclude nonprofits that he says engage in “the subsidization of illegal activities” from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF).
The executive order states “individuals employed by organizations whose activities have a substantial illegal purpose shall not be eligible for public service loan forgiveness.”
PSLF is a student loan program that lets those in government positions such as police or teachers, along with those working with nonprofits, to receive debt forgiveness after making 10 years of consecutive payments.
“Instead of alleviating worker shortages in necessary occupations, the PSLF Program has misdirected tax dollars into activist organizations that not only fail to serve the public interest, but actually harm our national security and American values, sometimes through criminal means,” the executive order reads…
A Trump staffer said “the problem” with the loan program is that some nonprofit employees work at organizations “that engage in illegal, or what we would consider to be improper activities supporting, for example, illegal immigration or foreign terrorist organizations or otherwise law breaking activities.”
We should get rid of this program altogether, but this is a good start.
DOGE: While this is a good first step, the government shouldn’t be forgiving the student loans of NGO workers in the first place. Pay your loans back or don’t take them out, period. pic.twitter.com/YKKmjEv3RN
— @amuse (@amuse) March 8, 2025
Bingo. Its absolutely insane that NGO workers qualify for the PSLF program.
You can be a six-figure-salary lawyer for one of these corrupt NGOs and qualify for the “public service” student loan forgiveness program. Ridiculous. https://t.co/RG7gbaIaFA
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) March 8, 2025
People who take out student loans should have to repay them. That’s the way it works in every other facet of life. It’s pretty simple, really.
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