How student loans will be impacted by Department of Education mass layoffs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Millions rely on Pell Grants, federal student loans, and special education funding.
56% : The department's workforce was 4,133 when Trump took office in January.
54% : " We have seen significant alignment between the administration's actions and what was in Project 2025," Peter Granville, a fellow at The Century Foundation, where he analyzes federal and state policy efforts to improve college access and affordability, told Newsweek.
52% : "I don't see at all how that can be true," Roxanne Garza, the director of higher education policy at Education Trust, a research and advocacy organization, told the Associated Press, adding that much of what the department does is labor intensive.
51% : National Education Association President Becky Pringle said gutting the department will "make higher education more expensive and out of reach for middle-class families.
50% : "Gutting the Department of Education will send class sizes soaring, cut job training programs, make higher education more expensive and out of reach for middle-class families, take away special education services for students with disabilities, and gut student civil rights protections.
8% : " National Education Association President Becky Pringle said in a statement: "Donald Trump and Elon Musk have aimed their wrecking ball at public schools and the futures of the 50 million students in rural, suburban, and urban communities across America by dismantling public education to pay for tax handouts for billionaires.

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