One year after President Trump signed an executive order calling for the shuttering of the Education Department, the agency has taken its biggest step yet toward self-elimination. On Thursday, the department announced that it would seek to move its $1.7 trillion student loan portfolio to the Treasury, the latest in a series of interagency agreements…
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Trump’s push to abolish the Education Department reaches student loan portfolio
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CitrixNews Staff
Originally reported by The Hill
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