Pa's Casey, Scanlon and Wild join Dems defying Devos over student loan forgiveness
WASHINGTON — A long-simmering feud between U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and congressional Democrats over student loan forgiveness is heating up as hundreds of thousands of borrowers continue to wait for help on loans they claim were fraudulent.
DeVos narrowly avoided a congressional subpoena earlier this month after a lengthy fight against the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor.
Her critics in Congress say they still intend to haul her in for questioning over the Trump administration’s controversial loan forgiveness rule, and some lawmakers are pushing an effort to upend her policy entirely.
Nevada Democratic Rep. Susie Lee has been a leading critic of the Trump administration’s reversal of an Obama-era student loan forgiveness policy. In September, she introduced a resolution to overturn DeVos’ rule.
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