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On student loans, the hits keep coming

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President Joe Biden’s illegal student loan “forgiveness” is exorbitant, costing taxpayers another $1.2 billion in just the past few weeks. In sum, it is likely to be the most expensive set of unsanctioned actions the administrative state has ever taken, costing more than half a trillion dollars in unappropriated, unapproved spending.

The costs don’t stop there. A looming human cost may be even higher — one generated by the universal incompetence of those running the Department of Education.

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