Now, the incoming Trump administration will have to determine how to resume the collection of defaulted student debt that has been paused since the beginning of the pandemic.
“It’s going to be insanely complicated,” said Michael Brickman, a senior Education Department official during the first Trump administration, to Politico. “You really can’t overstate the mess that this new administration is inheriting.”
Brickman added that the Biden administration’s “misadventures around loan forgiveness” that were rejected numerous times by courts have created “a really chaotic situation that’s going to have to be fixed.”
