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3 days ago
Trump Administration Restores Common-Sense Student Loan Forgiveness — Without the Chaos or the Handouts

Well, here’s something refreshing — the Trump administration is actually doing what Democrats only pretend to do: helping student borrowers responsibly and within the law.

This week, the Department of Education reinstated a long-standing student loan forgiveness program that had been frozen since July, according to The Washington Post. The plan allows borrowers who’ve paid faithfully for 25 years under the Income-Based Repayment (IBR) program to finally have their remaining balances forgiven — just as the law intended.

Yes, you read that right. The same Trump administration the Left calls “heartless” is the one ensuring Americans who’ve upheld their end of the bargain actually get the relief they were promised — not the politically staged “free college” circus Joe Biden tried (and failed) to pull off with his unconstitutional trillion-dollar vote-buying stunt.

Under this restored plan, borrowers who’ve made their 240–300 monthly payments will be eligible for forgiveness. Around 2 million borrowers are enrolled, though many haven’t hit the qualifying mark yet. Still, the move is a major step toward restoring order, fairness, and trust in a system that Biden’s bureaucratic mismanagement left in chaos.

Let’s not forget — under Biden, the Education Department buried more than a million applications in backlogs, leaving Americans stuck in limbo while the White House played politics with their futures. Court documents reveal that over 1.3 million borrowers are still caught in that same mess, and another 72,000 public service workers are waiting for a decision. Bureaucratic excellence at its finest.

Meanwhile, union leaders like Randi Weingarten (yes, that Randi Weingarten — the one who helped close your kids’ schools during COVID) are bragging about how they “stood up” to the Trump administration. Ironically, it’s Trump’s Education Department now doing what Weingarten’s pals in the Biden camp never could — actually fixing the problem.

The Department has set an October 21 deadline for borrowers to ensure their paperwork is up to date, which means forgiveness can be processed on time — though, thanks to D.C. dysfunction, the ongoing government shutdown could cause some delays. (After all, 90% of the bureaucracy is furloughed — which might be the most peaceful 90% reduction in noise we’ve ever seen in Washington.)

Here’s the real takeaway: Trump’s team isn’t canceling student loans to score political points — they’re enforcing the existing law. They’re not promising pie-in-the-sky “free money” to win votes; they’re delivering what borrowers earned through decades of responsibility.

That’s the difference between leadership and pandering.

So while the media will downplay this as “routine administrative action,” let’s be clear — this is what competence looks like. A real administration cleaning up the mess, respecting taxpayers, and making sure promises kept are promises honored.

Finally, a government move that rewards responsibility instead of reckless entitlement. Now that’s the kind of “forgiveness” America can get behind.