Millions of student-loan borrowers are in default. Lawmakers want the Trump administration to keep more from falling deeper into trouble.
On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley, and Reps. Ayanna Pressley and André Carson, led over 60 of their Democratic colleagues in pushing Education Sec. Linda McMahon to provide student-debt relief to eligible borrowers.
They want the administration to cancel student debt for borrowers who qualified for relief under existing programs, including Public Service Loan Forgiveness, the Total and Permanent Disability discharge, and borrower defense to repayment, while also clearing the backlog of income-driven repayment applications.
Defaults are at a…