Trump Administration Tasks Treasury Department with Student Loan Collection. What Borrowers Need to Know

Trump administration tasks Treasury Department with student loan collection. What borrowers need to know

Trump officials plan to task the Treasury Department with collecting on defaulted student loans and eventually "operational support" on current loans.

Column: Brian Stelter's Stilted Take on Trump Somehow Ending Democracy

CNN’s Brian Stelter exemplifies the media pattern of constantly claiming Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy that must be curbed. The comedy never ends. Trump was supposedly going to end democracy throughout his first term, and the fact that democracy never ended never slows Stelter & Co. down. On March 18, Stelter played up a new report out of Sweden that America is “rapidly autocratizing” in Trump’s second term. It looks like th…

Trump is dismantling democracy, reports find. And, Treasury to take over student loans

Recent studies show the U.S. is slipping further from democracy. And, the Trump administration plans to transfer federal student loans from the Education Department to the Treasury Department.

Three studies say U.S. is slipping from democracy; authors warn Trump seeks autocratic rule

Three major new studies find the United States is moving away from democratic norms, and leaders of two of the studies say President Donald Trump seeks to rule as an autocrat, according to the reports.