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Democratic lawmakers are pushing the Education Department to deliver student-debt relief to eligible borrowers.
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They also urged the department to continue the pause on involuntary collections and stop the transfer to the Treasury.
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The push comes as student-loan defaults are at a record high.
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…