Linda McMahon, US education secretary, speaks during a roundtable on education at the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, June 11, 2026.
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Hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers have gotten their debts forgiven, or soon will, due to a $23 billion class-action settlement with the U.S. Department of Education.
The student loan borrower plaintiffs said that their schools significantly misled them and that the Trump administration delayed delivering the relief to which they were entitled under a protection known as Borrower Defense. That program allows defrauded federal student borrowers to get their debt excused.
In late July, a federal appeals court denied Trump…