In lawsuit, AFSCME and allies slam administration for attacking PSLF

By AFSCME Staff · Monday, November 03, 2025 BOSTON – AFSCME has teamed up with a number of cities, unions and nonprofits to sue the U.S. Department of Education over unlawful changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.   The lawsuit accuses the Trump-Vance administration of illegally hijacking PSLF to silence governments and nonprofit organizations that do work the administration doesn’t like.  The administration’s action breaks a…

Trump Sued Over Plan to Block PSLF Student-Debt Relief

The first lawsuit challenging a new rule to alter a major student-loan forgiveness program for public servants has arrived. On Monday, advocacy groups Protect Borrowers and Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit on behalf of over a dozen cities, labor unions, and nonprofits over President Donald Trump’s new rule to limit the Public Service Loan Forgiveness…

Trump is changing student loan forgiveness rules – barring some public workers from getting relief, but resuming it for others

The Trump administration has tried to upend many facets of American life, and many facets of higher education are no exception. The Department of Education announced on Oct. 27, 2025, that it would resume canceling student loan debt for certain borrowers, after the government stopped this practice earlier in 2025. The Trump administration also announced…