So, the Department of Education is officially back to collecting federal student loan debt, after more than five years on pause, thanks to the Biden administration’s genius idea to kick the can down the road while buying votes for the 2024 election.
According to the department, this decision will impact over five million borrowers, plus another four million who are already behind on payments. That’s nearly ten million people about to get a friendly reminder that Biden’s promises don’t erase reality.
What blows my mind is that anyone could actually believe this is fair. Millions of Americans—myself included—took out student loans, paid them off, and did the responsible thing like grown adults. But now, somehow, today’s college students think they’re entitled to a free ride.
Let’s get something straight: nothing in life is free. Those professors standing in front of the classroom? They’ve got families to feed. The administrators, the staff, the maintenance crews keeping those cushy campuses running? All of them are getting paid.
And yet these pampered, safe-space-dwelling campus crybabies want taxpayers—all of us—to foot the bill for their loans, loans we never took out and never agreed to pay back. It’s entitlement on steroids, and someone needs to say it out loud: if you borrow it, you pay it. That’s how adulthood works.
Student loan collections were first paused in March 2020, because apparently, the best way to teach responsibility during a global crisis was to hand out a government-sanctioned hall pass to millions of borrowers—many of whom were already dodging adulthood before the pandemic even started.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELBut now? Tables are turning.
WATCH:
.@PressSec: “No student loan has been referred to collection since March of 2020. That comes to an end. On May 5th, the @usedgov will resume involuntary collections for borrowers with defaulted federal student loans.” pic.twitter.com/hpZOtVWG1U
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 22, 2025
This comes as the Trump administration is moving full steam ahead to dismantle the Department of Education (DOE). And not a moment too soon. After decades of bloated bureaucracy, pointless programs, and tuition costs that require a second mortgage, it’s about time someone asked, “Do we really need this mess?”
The president has ordered Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to start shutting it down. Translation? The free ride for overpriced degrees in gender studies and climate panic might finally be screeching to a halt—and the taxpayer-funded indoctrination machine could be getting its eviction notice.
Meanwhile, all borrowers in default can expect a friendly little email from the DOE’s federal student aid office in the next couple of weeks, followed by wage garnishment notices by mid-summer. Specifically, for those in default, of course. So, if you’ve been coasting on Biden’s endless extensions and pretending the debt fairy would make it all disappear, now’s a good time to check your inbox… and your paycheck.
The new policy is expected to kick in no later than May 5th. Go ahead and circle the date—because thanks to the Trump administration, reality is finally making a comeback.
Remember this: all debt is paid, even when it gets transferred to others. What the Trump administration is doing is sound policy.
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