Oh trust me I know, I have been a very squeaky wheel about this issue on #CapitolHill - I would not be here with current US #immigration policy (my father came and served US auto industry building those gigantic F150 trucks Trump fans get off on) on an #H1B, and I was educated on #GradPLUS loans
Exactly, people are not talking about getting rid of #GradPLUS #studentloan enough in major #news sources, but literally no policy that is more stabbing the country in the left anterior descending coronary artery than that one
If anyone wants me to write a guest opinion piece on it, I'm game
“Reliance on the private market doesn’t necessarily solve any of the problems that the legislation hopes to address. It also makes programs potentially higher cost and more risky for students who have to take on debt. #GradPlus #StudentLoans www.highereddive.com/news/end-of-...
Final point: the doctors working in the #UpperPeninsula are NOT people who can pay out of pocket for their entire #medicalschool education. They are usually poor, rural first-gen students who need #studentloans. Like the #GradPLUS loans the Trump admin just terminated.
The elimination of the #GradPLUS loan program, due to the #OneBigBeautifulBill Act, will result in many more adults struggling to obtain a private #StudentLoan to fund their graduate education, according to a new analysis from @tcfdotorg.bsky.social: ow.ly/6A0L50WFrPM
exactly the same. I graduated with my Masters (right after undergrad), both from "elite" institutions into months of #unemployment. I found a job in #academia that led me to go to #medicalschool (financed by #GradPLUS loans)
GenZers will have the same #recession without:
- academia
- Grad PLUS loans
Only 19% of people who match in #Arkansas have a physician family member who can presumably pay some of their way in #medicalschool.
Maine is even more stark, 81.31% training there are first generation doctors in their family and likely dependent on #GradPLUS to pay their way
Trump’s 2026 Student Loan Overhaul: Repayment Plans Slashed, Grad PLUS Loans Eliminated, and Hardship Deferments Ended Under New Law
Major changes hit borrowers in 2026 Here’s what you need to know
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#StudentLoans #GradPLUS #EducationPolicy #News #Noticias #Trump #WorldNews #NewsLink7
And in a surprise to nobody, the biggest cheerleaders of getting rid of #GradPLUS and eliminating access to medical education for these students are...billionaire hedge fund Arnold Ventures, which has been bankrolling Vinay Prasad for over a decade
4) finally, private loans are usury with interest rates approaching those of putting your entire medical education on a credit card, without the protection of credit card debt. I will say I paid an enormous amount of interest on my #GradPLUS loans with 8% rates. The feds made a lot of money off me
I've mentioned I could not afford #medicalschool without #GradPLUS loans (and actually they got rid of subsidized Stafford my final year of med school)
The VAST majority of the attendings I work with currently came from modest means, used Grad PLUS
The best hospital in my state would not exist
Trump just gutted Grad PLUS Loans—the only way so many of us made it through grad school. Now they’re capping it, slashing it, ruining futures. I used that to survive. This isn’t reform—it’s sabotage. I’m fucking furious. #DefendStudentAid #GradPLUS #TrumpHurtsStudents
Nobody has covered this, but this #GradPLUS cap is going to cause some #medicalschool to close, including some that just opened. I'm thinking schools in more rural areas, like satellite campuses of Michigan State and Medical College of Wisconsin in northern MI or central WI
#WTF? #FuckTheRepublicanParty!
"It also ends the #GradPLUS loan program, sets strict limits on #ParentPLUS loans and envisions a new system whereby #colleges and #universities are #forced to #reimburse the #FederalGovernment for a share of the #debt when #students fail to repay federal loans."
