The Secretary of Education is a comically unqualified billionaire who embodies how money buys political power. And she isn't being held to account.
Amazingly, the Department of Education is seeking to quash those state efforts. It’s just one of many cases where the wishes of the student debt industry are being granted, while the needs of everyday Americans crushed by predatory debt are being disregarded. Could there be a better issue for Democrats to use their reclaimed House majority to highlight?
under her purview, and the Committee has yet to hear from a single other Education Department staffer in the more than four months since taking control.representative of the for-profit college or lending industries have testified. The failure to ask that question is both bad governance and political malpractice. Democrats speak about the need to lay out an affirmative policy vision for 2020, but spending your days talking about legislation that is doomed to die in the Senate is not a meaningful way to do it.
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