Department of Education

John Stossel | 5.7.2025 10:10 AM

I have a conflict.

I don't much like Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump's new education secretary. I sued her once.

She and her sleazy husband, Vince, owned a circus called World Wrestling Entertainment.

When I did a silly ABC news video on how the matches are staged, one of their 280-pound actors beat me up. A wrestler said Vince told him to do it.

But now, I like what Linda's doing!

As education secretary, she's telling students to pay back their loans, saying, "There's no such thing as loan forgiveness. It just gets transferred to someone else. That's just not fair!"

It's not. Yet students got used to not paying. Today, most don't pay their loans back.

The Biden administration encouraged that. Even after the Supreme Court struck down his student loan forgiveness program, Biden tweeted, "They didn't stop me," and kept canceling student debt.

But why should college students, who are, on average, richer than other Americans, get free money? Truck drivers don't get loan forgiveness for buying........

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