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Veteran and student loan borrower Tasha Berkhalter to warn lawmakers of risks to military families.
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See here to read Tasha Berkhalter’s testimony from May 6, 2025.
186 organizations representing millions crushed under the weight of student loan debt submitted a comment in response to ED’s notice of its intent to establish negotiated rulemaking aimed at overhauling the rules that protect people from unaffordable student loan debt.
Read quotes from borrowers across the country on the need for affordable student debt payments and relief.
Congressional Republicans want to make it harder for their own constituents to afford graduate education and compete in today’s job market.
Read the latest Protect Borrowers press release.
House Republicans are moving forward with their plans to pass a budget that will allow them to deliver $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations by cutting education, lifesaving healthcare and food assistance, and other critical social programs that working families rely on.
Students and education access should not be at the mercy of risky credit markets.
For the first time in four-and-a-half years, millions of student loan borrowers will soon feel the economically draconian penalties of a student loan default once again.