Donald Trump, federal student aid and education department

Website for student loans, financial aid goes down after education department layoffs
Users reported FAFSA outages, saying they were having trouble completing the form, required for financial aid at colleges nationwide.
Is FAFSA site still down? Did Trump end student financial aid?
The temporary outage of the FAFSA website sparks fears that Donald Trump has followed through on threats to dismantle the Department of Education.
What Will Happen to Financial Aid if Trump Closes the Education Department?
The Trump administration appears to be moving forward with plans to shutter — or at a minimum, shrink — the Education Department. Fully closing down the 45-year-old department, an idea that President Donald Trump supported during his campaign,
List of Student Loan, Aid Programs At Risk if Education Department Cut
Key student loan and aid programs may be eliminated or restructured if Trump follows through with cutting the Department of Education.
What happens to Massachusetts student loans if Trump closes the Department of Education?
There are over 900,000 student borrowers with $32.1 billion in student loan debt in Massachusetts. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that the agency will continue to deliver funding mandated by law,
What the Department of Education layoffs could mean for student loan borrowers: 'This will only make things worse,' activist says
President Donald Trump's administration is downsizing the Department of Education. Some experts say that may cause trouble for student loan borrowers.
FAFSA student loan site goes down as Trump’s mass layoffs gut US Education Department
A list of laid-off staff obtained and verified by AP shows more than 300 people cut from Federal Student Aid — two dozen of them from Federal Student Aid’s technology division. That included the entir
Federal student loan site experiences outage, a day after layoffs gutted Education Department
An hours-long outage Wednesday on StudentAid.gov, the federal website for student loans and financial aid, underscored the risks in rapidly gutting the Department of Education, as President Donald Trump aims to dismantle the agency.
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Student debt repayment plans suspended by Trump? Here's what you should know
Recent changes to student loan policies under the Trump administration have left many borrowers in a state of confusion and ...
Trump wants to dismantle the Department of Education. Here's what the agency does.
The Department of Education doesn't oversee school curriculums, but it does offer a range of services affecting millions of ...
Fact check: Trump’s false claims on immigration, Biden, Ukraine in DOJ remarks
President Donald Trump made multiple false claims in a Friday speech at the Department of Justice in which he discussed the ...
These Kansas farmers now face serious financial trouble after the Trump administration’s decision to purge USAID — here’s how it hurts them and the bigge…
Halting foreign aid clearly hurts overseas communities, but the impacts have hit hard domestically, too. In fact, halting aid ...
Trump falsely claimed US spent $350B on military aid to Ukraine
"We gave you $350 billion for military equipment," Trump said to Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in February 2025.
How Trump’s foreign aid and diplomatic cuts will make it harder for the US to wield soft power to maintain its friendships and win new ones
The Trump administration has proposed shuttering USAID and cutting some of the State Department’s critical diplomatic ...
‘Reign of terror.’ Universities freeze hiring, rescind offers, start layoffs amid Trump cuts
More than a dozen schools, including Harvard, MIT, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania, have frozen hiring.
Judges Are Pushing Back on Trump’s Actions. Here’s a Look at Key Rulings.
Taken as a whole, the rulings represent an effort to thwart President Trump’s serial attempts to increase his power and the ...