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LIZ PEEK: Trump is starving the machine that creates America's socialist revolutionaries

Limiting the amount of money available for grad students will help control the spiraling debt (and grievances) of those seeking useless degrees

By Liz Peek Fox News

Published July 28, 2026 5:00am EDT

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Socialism is metastasizing like a cancer throughout our country. Though collectivism will inevitably fail, because it always does, it is already causing significant damage to our nation’s political and social fabric. It must be stopped.

It is not enough to defeat Socialism at the ballot box. The factories producing this infection — the far-left faculties of our colleges and universities — must be starved of taxpayer money. Thankfully, the Trump White House has taken measures to start that process.

As of July 1, the Department of Education implemented new limits on student loans. Instead of letting young people pile up unlimited amounts of debt in pursuit of a degree of questionable value, the government has now capped what students and their parents can borrow to finance (primarily) graduate programs.

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