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by kasey_junk 912 days ago
They are required to pay for the Pell grants somehow without new revenue. It’s a house rule.

So they are taking the money from the student loan program. It’s not really going to pay for the grants because that loan money is still available just at different institutions. It’s an accounting trick.

But those institutions are an easy target. The right views them as spreading leftist ideals and the left views them as bastions of privilege.

Of course if this passes it will be middle class kids that get hurt the worst.