r/FightStudentDebt

Dear Mr. Kent:
I wish to nominate you for prize idiot puppet of the year. In support this nomination:

“We have shrunk the federal Department of Education by almost 50% since the secretary came in,” Kent said, describing it as “remarkable.”

“And it would probably be even slightly higher than that if the federal courts had not intervened in some of our civil rights work. So we've shrunk the department by nearly 50% in terms of FTE or headcount,” he continued.

Kent noted that “services have still went on” regardless of the downsizing, saying that under the Biden administration, “double the staff weren't able to do core functions like getting out the FAFSA on time.”

https://townhall.com/news/cameron-arcand/2026/08/18/heres-what-we-know-about-the-remarkable-efforts-to-sunset-the-education-department-n2681486

We have reached the realm of ridiculousness. Borrowers with public service jobs are getting screwed over.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2026/08/18/education-department-rescinds-student-loan-forgiveness-credit-but-scope-of-rollback-is-unclear/

This is an amazing article about the countdown 8 million people are experiencing as we wait for our families prosperity to be pulled out from under us. But it doesn’t have to be this way! All these rules are just made up, and we can fight to change them!
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/save-student-loans-default-repayment-debt-trump-biden/