Biden’s Department of Education Appears to be Weaponizing Fines
Andrew Gillen
December 8, 2023
One critique of those on the left is that they’ve weaponized the legal and administrative systems against their political opponents. This isn’t necessarily new, or even unique to the left. Republican President Richard Nixon tried to weaponize the IRS to threaten and punish opponents. Decades later, Democrat President Barack Obama did the same. Under Obama’s IRS, former Director Lois Lerner successfully targeted and suppressed conservative non-profits, and former Commissioner John Koskinen later stonewalled Congress and “destroyed evidence subject to subpoena.”
The Biden Department of Education (ED) now appears to be abusing the law to punish political opponents as well. Consider two recent fines levied by the Biden administration, one for $37.7 million against Grand Canyon University and another for $7.2 million against student loan servicer MOHELA. It is possible that there are legitimate reasons for these fines, but both raise numerous red flags and there is a high probability that the Biden administration is weaponizing fines to punish political opponents.
Grand Canyon University
The Biden administration fined Grand Canyon University $37.7 million for allegedly providing misleading estimates of the cost of enrolling in its doctoral programs, specifically for not including the cost of continuing education courses for doctoral students when they are working on their dissertation.
