By Douglas V. Gibbs
The current administration has taken decisive steps to dismantle President Biden’s unconstitutional and misguided policy of student loan forgiveness. While a college education can be a wonderful pursuit, it is not as essential as a high school education, nor should it be treated as a universal requirement. The progressive push to funnel every young American into a four-year degree has produced disastrous results. Much like currency, bachelor’s degrees lose their value when they are overproduced. What was once a mark of distinction has become diluted, leaving graduates with diminished prospects and a mountain of debt.
The consequences of this policy experiment are plain to see. The job market can only absorb so many degree-holders, yet millions of graduates are competing for a limited pool of positions, burdened with loans they may never repay. At the same time, the nation faces a severe shortage of skilled blue-collar workers; men and women trained in trades who often earn more than their college-educated peers and do so without the crushing weight of student debt. The imbalance reveals a painful truth: the government’s obsession with college-for-all has left America weaker, not stronger.
We know why the Democrats insist on pushing a college degree, and hammer you as uneducated if you don’t give in. It has little to do with genuine education and everything to do with indoctrination. By saddling young Americans with crushing debt tied to degrees that often hold little practical value, they destroy ambition and erode independence. The result is a generation conditioned to look to government for relief, trained to believe that the same politicians who created their misery are the ones who can rescue them. It is not about opportunity—it is about control.
The Trump administration recognizes the truth about the whole college indoctrination machine, and how the Biden administration established a federal student loan repayment plan known as SAVE pushing for sweeping debt relief. The U.S. Department of Education announced a proposed settlement with Missouri and six other Republican-led states that had sued to block the program. The agreement, which still requires approval from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, would effectively end SAVE.
The states rightly argued that the Biden administration exceeded its constitutional authority when it created the program in 2023. SAVE offered millions of borrowers lower monthly payments and an accelerated path to debt erasure, but it was an unconstitutional expansion of not only executive power, but of any federal power. The settlement marks a significant step in rolling back Biden’s student loan agenda, underscoring the new administration’s commitment to restoring fiscal restraint and the rule of law.
Under the proposed Dec. 9 settlement, the Education Department would stop enrolling any new borrowers into SAVE, reject all pending SAVE applications, and move all current SAVE borrowers into legally authorized repayment plans.
If the court approves the terms of the settlement, roughly seven million borrowers will be given a limited window to choose a different repayment plan and resume payments. This marks a dramatic shift away from the Biden-era promise of sweeping loan forgiveness, replacing it with a return to fiscal responsibility and personal accountability.
The Department of Education itself hailed the settlement, declaring it a “definitive end” to the Biden administration’s student loan relief agenda. In other words, the experiment in mass debt cancellation is over. What remains is a clear signal that the federal government will no longer serve as a perpetual bailout machine for failed progressive policies, but instead will restore balance to a system that has long been tilted against taxpayers and working-class Americans.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
