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What is the Trump Admin Changing About Student Loans? | Jonathan Butcher
12 minutes Posted Mar 25, 2026 at 8:23 am.
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Last week, the Trump administration announced major changes to the way that student loan debt will be managed, specifically moving that management from the Department of Education to the Department of the Treasury. I sat down with Jonathan Butcher, Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Education Policy here at the Heritage Foundation, to talk about why this is a huge step in the movement to return education to local control. 

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