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Trump’s new plan for student loans, briefly explained

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06.05.2025
Demonstrators in favor of student loan debt forgiveness outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 30, 2023. | Anna Rose Layden/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration will begin sending student loans in default to debt collectors today and will soon seize wages for repayment, a decision with financial consequences for millions of Americans behind on their payments.

What’s the context here? The first Trump administration stopped requiring repayment of student loans in March 2020. After Joe Biden’s........

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