• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      Yes. THANK YOU.

      It needs to be acknowledged that it is Republicans that wanted this. All too often when they are up to bad things, you’ll see terms like “Congress” did this, or “the United States” did that, in order to water down the who that is actually doing the awful thing.

      The “bothsides” narrative is what is destroying this country. It gives a pass to the worst elements of the Republican Party.

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        And remember the Republican damage can be felt years down the line

        FAFSA changes this year was a Republican bill from 2019 shoehorned in the COViD relief bill at the end of the first round. My kids are losing thousands of dollars in financial aid for college this year from something with a reasonable looking title that Republicans did 6 years ago

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          Doesn’t DOE handle school loans? With the dogebags dismantling that, I have no idea what they have planned…

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            Yep. We can only hope they screw up however they’re trying to screw everyone over.

            At the moment there is still an agency tasked with handling student loans. For whatever amount of credit you give their promises, they promise there will be