Democracy Matters :verified:<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EightYearsAgoToday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EightYearsAgoToday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AreWeGreatYet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AreWeGreatYet</span></a></p><p>April 12, 2017 – Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rolled back Obama-era protections put in place to help students with student loan payments. </p><p>The Department of Education offered no immediate replacement of the protections against default. In the eight years before DeVos’s repeal, 8.7 million Americans had defaulted on their student loans.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpKillsEverything" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpKillsEverything</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RepublicansOwnThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicansOwnThis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AgentKrasnov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgentKrasnov</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PresidentBystander" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentBystander</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ArrestTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArrestTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOPKakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPKakistocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>